Treacherous Waters

No, that couldn't be; it had to be fake, an illusion, a trick of the mind. His mother was gone. He saw it with his own eyes, and yet… that was her voice.

David took a deep breath. He was in a new land with new rules, which meant that other forces could be at play there. There was a need to focus, and so he did, steeling himself properly.

He stared around, watching every moment possible, anything out of the ordinary within the sea, listening to the song of the ocean until he found what appeared to be several small fishing boats in the water. On them were strange, half-dressed old men with leaf hats playing on a flute.

They seemed to harbor no ill will, yet something about them were unsettling, so David called out to them. "We have come here to these waters to enter Galfania. Who may you be?"