06-10-2022, 10:09 PM
The ocean had a voice, Mable had come to realize.
You could tell when it was calm and when it was angry, even when to expect rain or not just by listening to it. Fishermen, and all the people who made their living on the sea, were fluent, and Mable was envious of them.
She could understand trees, sometimes, and what they wanted to say back on the farm in America. But the ocean was different, more difficult even, but Mable was a determined girl. Today, she was dedicating as much time as possible to sitting and listening to the ocean, trying to decode it's message and hear what it wanted to say. She was even getting pretty good at it, she thought!
A loud whistle jolted her back to Earth, her eyes shooting open in surprise. Mable hadn't even realized anyone else was on the beach! She searched across the sand for the culprit, spotting a young man a little ways away from her.
"Hey!" she called to him, "that was amazing! How did you manage to whistle so loudly? That was amazing!"
You could tell when it was calm and when it was angry, even when to expect rain or not just by listening to it. Fishermen, and all the people who made their living on the sea, were fluent, and Mable was envious of them.
She could understand trees, sometimes, and what they wanted to say back on the farm in America. But the ocean was different, more difficult even, but Mable was a determined girl. Today, she was dedicating as much time as possible to sitting and listening to the ocean, trying to decode it's message and hear what it wanted to say. She was even getting pretty good at it, she thought!
A loud whistle jolted her back to Earth, her eyes shooting open in surprise. Mable hadn't even realized anyone else was on the beach! She searched across the sand for the culprit, spotting a young man a little ways away from her.
"Hey!" she called to him, "that was amazing! How did you manage to whistle so loudly? That was amazing!"
