The Sea That Refused to Forget

This sea remembered every shipwreck, every confession whispered at its shore. Sailors claimed it cried out during storms, repeating last words of the drowned. When a young captain tried to navigate it, the ocean repeated her childhood regrets. She listened, then spoke forgiveness into the wind. The sea calmed, as though released. For the first time in centuries, it rested. “Even the vast must let go,” it seemed to say.