| The Sea, it Held but Just Ourselves and Immortality
Immortality was something easily done by that point in history. Grandfather says that he remembers a time in his youth where people died after unfulfilled, short lives. He was one of the first to taste a bit of immortality. Part of the problem with it, though, was that chimerization wasn't quite the skillful science it is today. They kind of overdosed him on the sea tortoise genes, and well... he looks only a little like he used to. He likes lettuce, and summertime. He likes leaving on the ocean waves and disappearing for a few decades at a time. He comes back each time with tales of real tortoises caught in ancient nets. He comes back with tales of sunken ships and whale skeletons, of the endless, endless ocean. He always comes back with a smile for me.
Leslie Powell |