Gilded Bay It is the bringing of the line

Their gazes connected for a few minutes, but the silence remained until she turned back to the water. She began talking about how living in the ocean seemed preferable to her current living situation, which seemed kind of sad. He continued to watch her as she spoke, concern filing his expression. I suppose if you were meant to live in the ocean, it might be a simpler life--maybe not. Maybe somewhere out there some ocean-dwelling creature is looking longingly at the land and thinking something similar. The grass is always  greener, right? If where you're living is that bad, you can come stay with my sister and me. The words were out before he realized what he was saying or why he was saying it. But, the offer was there, and he wouldn't rescind it.