The ocean carried me upward like a living breath returning to the surface.
Currents wrapped around my body gently, reverently, no longer testing or questioning my presence. They moved with certainty now, guiding me through rising light as though escorting their rightful sovereign home.
For the first time since arriving in this world, the sea felt calm…calm in the way a heart settles after surviving disaster.
Below me, the guardian's immense glow faded into the abyss, its restored power stabilizing the wounded ocean. The violent tremors that once shook the depths
softened into steady pulses of life.
Creatures emerged cautiously from hiding, luminous forms drifting through the water as if witnessing the rebirth of something sacred.
I felt them,their every movement.Every current brushing past distant reefs.Every living presence acknowledges me.
