[He listens intently, clearly eating up every small fact she could give him. Seeing the ocean was a dream of his for sure. It seemed like something out of a fantasy, even when he’d seen clips of it during District Four interviews. He couldn’t wrap his head around that much water or how it behaved.]
When I was growing up, yes. There were a couple lakes and even a handful of rivers, but that was it. Even once I started living somewhere else, I couldn’t go out during the day.
[He thought back to when he’d talked to Sam about it and the swath of impossibly black something he could see in the distance from the top of that huge hill. It was immense and no land he’d ever seen looked like that at night.]
We might have been nearby it, but I couldn’t tell you for sure. Besides, more than likely it would have been a ‘bad’ one. Everything there was polluted.
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When I was growing up, yes. There were a couple lakes and even a handful of rivers, but that was it. Even once I started living somewhere else, I couldn’t go out during the day.
[He thought back to when he’d talked to Sam about it and the swath of impossibly black something he could see in the distance from the top of that huge hill. It was immense and no land he’d ever seen looked like that at night.]
We might have been nearby it, but I couldn’t tell you for sure. Besides, more than likely it would have been a ‘bad’ one. Everything there was polluted.