Wheeling Gull Isle the invention of the ship was the invention of the shipwreck

the children separate to wander into their minds for some time. ava is taken by her reflection but abel prefers to avoid his own, instead captured by how the water felt when it touched him. it was cold and refreshing against his toes, but it pulled at him as it swayed, threatening to take him from the island and all he had ever known. he found it to be a comfort and a terror, and what was new there?

he looked over to his sister, squinting for a moment as his eyes adjusted to the light reflecing off the glimmering pool, then observed her as she observed herself.