After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with despair. Instead, she felt an inexplicable sense of peace. She was cradled in music. The surrounding rocks chanted like slow, growling bells, and each curl of the water stroked her fins with silky notes. She'd been so afraid of leaving her tribe, but she understood that she never would have heard the music resonating out of every crook of the world if she hadn't taken so many risks. She'd opened her heart to the music of solitude, and it had come to her.

— Sarah Porter

...a soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.

— Sarah Porter