The Year One,
For a thousand years the King and Queen never forgot the night when a pair of dolphins found a boy and a girl sailing east together across the sea, watched over by the West Wind alone. They always wished it could have lasted longer, tugging at their hearts like a half-remembered dream.
Their long-awaited night was pronounced by the light of a comet in the sky where the mountains met the sea. The King and Queen knew what they had to do. They departed for the western coast at once.
She would find the one who fell off the turtle’s back.
He would find a fish who was willing to do anything for an apple.
They would meet at the Riverlilly to play their part. After which they had a dark road to go, but they would travel it together, fin in fin.