The Waterborne - Grandfather Harry
Author: grayling (add to friends)Philip meets a familiar character:
Just before dawn a Waterborne spirit approaches me. I feel a strong familiarity and a voice echoes within me:
“Who are you?”
“I am Harry.”
“Grandfather?”
“Yes.”
“You are a long way from our village.”
“Water knows all that is out of time and our meeting was ordained. I was required to come here to meet you.”
“Why are you Waterborne?”
“Who accompanied you to the water as a child? You and your father. Remember the willowy margins of Broomfleet ponds – and Flamborough ? We had some hairy, scary boat-rides, eh? Chasing after the cod and the mackerel. Jim is somewhere, and Ernie – and he has his sight again, much as we all do. I was so pleased when you and your brother kept my heavy old Greenheart rod for such a long time after I had gone. I sensed it every time it connected with the river.
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