Gerhard’s Reviews > Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear > Status Update

There had been storms before. There would be storms again. They would rebuild, ever and always.

It is a pleasant thing, to linger in currents clean and clear, where we know nothing will hurt us. Sometimes, though, the fishing is better where the water moves more quickly. Sometimes, we must move on.

Some people trusted other people, some people trusted religion or people on the news, and she trusted turtles. It was just one more way a person could be made differently.

“This is not an age of heroes, but doors will open where and when they will. Was there a door?”

Stories had to have beginnings, which meant someone had to be where they were beginning, or there was no purpose to them. She was just at the beginning of a story, that was all, and this was perfectly possible.

It took a moment for her rage to clear enough for the words to actually register: byt’ uveren. A beat later, she realized why that looked so strange, apart from words having no business on the back of a turtle. They were written in Russian. Be sure.