Tory had been born in the... «Into the Drowning Deep»
RamingoWS12 апреля 2018Tory had been born in the Monterey City Hospital. According to her parents, her first smile had been directed not at her mother, but at the Pacific Ocean. She had learned to swim in safe municipal pools by the age of eighteen months, and been in the ocean -- closely supervised -- by the time she was three, reveling in the taste of salt water on her lips and the sting of the sea spray in her eyes. (She`d been grabbed by a riptide when she was seven, yanked away from her parents and pushed twenty yards from shore in the time it took to blink. She didn`t remember the incident when she was awake, but it surfaced often in her dreams: the suddenly hostile water reaching up to grab her and drag her down. Most children would have hated the ocean after something like that, letting well-earned fear keep their feet on the shore. Not Tory. The riptide had just been doing what it was made to do; she was the one who`d been in the wrong place. She had to learn to be in a better place when the next riptide came along).
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