In my dream, I heard a terrible noise and the crackle and hiss of flames. I felt cold water and salt spray, and then I was back in the Cateline, speeding across the sea. But it couldn’t be the Cateline, for I knew the little boat had been destroyed in the whirlpool. I lay with my head in my sister’s lap, feeling her familiar touch on my brow. I heard Luna ask, “Will she wake?” She asked it over and over, her tone insistent and desperate. Emmeline’s reply was always the same: “I believe she will, darling.” I felt the sun on my face, and then it was gone. This happened three times. Once there was an extraordinary splash and a wave that nearly capsized us. Luna’s voice came faintly to me: “A whale!” she cried. “Oh, look at its eye!” I struggled to open my own eyes to see the marvel, but I could not. Time passed in my dream, and the boat scraped on sand. Waves broke on a shore, and gulls called overhead. There were people all around, their voices rising and falling.
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