Chapter 4 High Tide, Low Tide
*Thock*
*Thock* *Thock*
What’s that awful sound?
*Thock* *Thock* *Thock*
For the first ti in a while, I was awakened before I felt like it. For a while now there were vibrations, tossing and tumbling, sotis even sliding or sailing movents but none so crude like this. It felt as if soone was deliberately knocking against the outside of the current prison that I’m in.
I caught a glimpse of the outside of my prison. Yes, it turned out to be a shellfish of so sort. After the initial movents stopped for the first ti, I saw light again. I didn’t see water but I heard it for sure. The shellfish couldn’t move much, only opening and closing. I suppose the water must have pushed into it while I was napping.
The shellfish was a rather shy creature. It was slow to open up and quick to close whenever sothing ca into contact with it. The shell that was its ho was my prison and as much as I enjoyed the view outside, the owner of this shell was ultimately not .
Oh yes. Speaking about that, I discovered that I possessed a very interesting power. No, it didn’t help move yet BUT I think it might in due ti.
Yesterday... the day before... no, maybe even before that... I realised that I was able to ’absorb’ things into my body. You see, the sea likes to move. Sotis it goes away and then sotis it returns. For the past few days, while the light ca and gone and returned once more, the water has co and gone at least eight tis. Every ti the water ca, it would bring items into the shell. Most of the ti, it brought sand. The shellfish would snap the shell shut and wriggle around inside trying to get rid of the unwanted objects. That annoyed as I too required space and the shellfish wasn’t giving it. I decided to make space by attempting to will the items away.
Strangely, instead of moving the items outside, I moved the items inside of . The first ti it happened, I felt sleepy and took a short nap. The very first object I ’absorbed’ was a grain of sand. Subsequently, I tried it again hoping that I could will the objects to move again. However, no matter how much I tried, they could only move inwards and get absorbed.
The sleepiness beca less after I absorbed at least a hundred grains of sand. I decided to try absorbing sothing else like water. It was tricky as water was huge. However, I could separate water into smaller parts and it took a while for to be able to absorb all the trapped water in the shell within one intake. I also noticed that the shellfish tended to open quicker if there was less water. With this new finding, I absorbed as much as I could, whenever I could. When I got tired, I slept.
Then, I accidentally absorbed part of the shell during one of my water draining sessions. No, there isn’t a hole yet but I aim to make one as soon as I can. The shell was a few layers thinner now and I rejoiced at my ’power’. Despite not being powerful enough to take down the prison, I now had sothing called hope.
*Thock* *Thock*
That sound again... what’s going on? For the first ti in my imprisonnt, I felt that it was better to remain inside than outside.
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