Wheeling Gull Isle tongkola

she found weird, soft-bodied creatures shaped like stars in the third pool. heda wondered if they were edible. she extended her toes into the water and the animal clung to it with soft suckers.
it was more different than anything else.
she looked up toward bartholomew. her face was enchanted, and it seemed the shackles of the previous year had gently fallen away, at least for the present.