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He came along like a dragging log. He knew, very well, where he was being taken. Thibault had practically refused to enter the ocean before.
He understood now- that it was vast. Open. Scary.
Even more scary standing in front of it, even with maman swam between the arms of the cliffs. Uncomfortable, uneased, unsure. Even so, he was her boy, and he would follow her until he learned if he could learn.
"I comin', ma.." looking ahead to her, then down to his heavy-stepping feet, he pushed towards the water. Until his feet got wet. Until he could feel sand pulling underneath him. For as confident as his steps became, or perhaps only giving in to his death fate, his eyes and pouty face looked as if he were being asked to figure out how to work a lawnmower alone.
Whatever that was.

He went incredibly still once he was wrist deep.
"....."
"What I be doin' now?"
With a heavier step forward, he tried to walk to her, his limbs lifting up comically high- far higher than he needed to like he reached for the sky! He big and he brave!
But he had a secret bigger than that!
hewasnotverybrave
"I gon' be doin' what you be doin'?" His eyes big, curious, moving gears.