Ruin of the Sovereign Billionaire
He knelt in the wet sand, a tiny wooden spade in hand, dark brows drawn into a tight, focused line that made my chest ache.
"A trade route, Tobes?"
"If the water comes in from this side, it washes the castle out," he said, not looking up. "But if I dig the channel through the rocks here" a sandy finger pointed at a cluster of black basalt "the wave loses its power before it hits the gate. Like a buffer."
I stared at him. Other four-year-olds built lopsided mounds and ate handfuls of sand. Toby was running a risk-mitigation strategy with pebbles and tide pools.