The pull she carries up to the tower
One morning on patrol she saw something tangled in a drum line: from a distance it looked like trash, up close it was a young mako shark, dead. Not exactly her own species, but one of the water's own. She untangled it alone, measured it, logged it, and filled out the report with every detail. Ever since, every time she sees one of those lines from the tower, she feels a pull in her stomach that never quite lets go. She doesn't say it out loud. She carries it, the way you carry the things you decide never to put down.







