"Knowledge should be shared," Leah says, "unless the sharing would cause someone to get hurt."
"I like that," I say. "You have a wonderful sense of how to treat the world, I think, you really do. I--" I cut myself off and catch the edges of the boat, and Leah leans over all unafraid, and I follow the line of her sight to see a great rolling coil of I-can't-even-imagine-what, it's less the girth of it than the length. For a minute I wonder if it's only a wave that hit us as we passed over some undersea ridge, and the cloudy light on the water that makes it look like's it's moving, and then...
Oh, and then.
"Oh my god," I say, eyes and mouth wide as the sea serpent unreels into the sky and around the beach. "Oh my god, that's fantastic! Have you every seen anything like it, have you?" and my hand's on the rudder and I'm steering us sort-of towards it, not too much, because it's just--
There are people in its coils, I think, and I wouldn't want to get caught. I wouldn't want to stop moving. But I have to look.
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Date: 2011-03-17 10:09 pm (UTC)"I like that," I say. "You have a wonderful sense of how to treat the world, I think, you really do. I--" I cut myself off and catch the edges of the boat, and Leah leans over all unafraid, and I follow the line of her sight to see a great rolling coil of I-can't-even-imagine-what, it's less the girth of it than the length. For a minute I wonder if it's only a wave that hit us as we passed over some undersea ridge, and the cloudy light on the water that makes it look like's it's moving, and then...
Oh, and then.
"Oh my god," I say, eyes and mouth wide as the sea serpent unreels into the sky and around the beach. "Oh my god, that's fantastic! Have you every seen anything like it, have you?" and my hand's on the rudder and I'm steering us sort-of towards it, not too much, because it's just--
There are people in its coils, I think, and I wouldn't want to get caught. I wouldn't want to stop moving. But I have to look.