Drowned in the Past
No sound came out.
He went back to the sea anyway.
The light had been coming closer lately. Sometimes it stayed away for three days in a row, then reappeared suddenly, right at the moment he set the candy down on the rock, rising from the deep, hovering in the water just below the step.
He'd worked out a rough pattern. When the tide was in, she didn't come. When it was out, she sometimes would.
That day the tide had gone out very far, exposing a wide stretch of the flat. Rocks that were usually submerged had surfaced, sea grass hanging from their crevices, dripping.
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