03-03-2008, 12:37 AM
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She could only imagine the wonders that he probably saw out there on a sea that seemed endless. Though she had seen the very places where the horizon stretched on for miles in what seemed like a limitless, flat plain, she knew that there were places all over the world. There was always land somewhere across that ocean. They sat for a while more, talking briefly as though it were really the enlightened days of the past, before Corona decided it was time to head off. Giving her old man a hug (because how could she not?) she left with a much lighter heart than she came in. Maybe her luck—and his—would change eventually. It had too, because not everything could stay as dismal as it had been. Maybe they shouldn't achieve the sort of things that were there some odd time ago, but something better. It was that kind of ideology that fuelled her desire to venture away from one of the only places she had ever known, and stake out somewhere else.[/html]