“Alyce strolled beside Eva as they moved east from the rows of shops, following a road that brought them around to look out at the open sea. A green park sloped down from limestone cliffs, and a striped lighthouse in the park kept its glass eye turned out toward the water. More boats and ships danced along the surface of the sea in their own ageless rhythm. Landlocked. That was her. All her life. And here was just a tiny sliver of the sea, and ships skimming along the waves. But—aside from Simon...—she’d never seen anything so exotic. This was merely someone else’s world, as routine to them as the miners plunging every day over a hundred feet underground. Maybe a sailor would gape at the man-engine, the complicated device that lowered the miners far down into the earth. Simon had been on many ships. Had journeyed across oceans to faraway places. She pictured him on the deck of a ship, his hair wind-tossed, his eyes as blue as the sea around him. It filled her with lightness, that image.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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