[It's always like a change in the tide when something goes right for a change, when things start to look up. A break in the clouds, to use the surface term. But things are looking better. Tu Vishan is feeling it and he's letting everyone else feel it too. Why waste the massive turtle's gift?

She looks beautiful. That's about all he can think as they head toward the center of the festivities. When was the last time they got dressed up to go out? He's not sure. Maybe before they were married. Atlantis always took up so much of their time, it's almost strange not to have to deal with the day to day matters of the ocean.]

I'm a little out of practice. [He says with a laugh.] It hasn't been just the two of us in a while. I thought, my lovely wife, that we'd go see the kedan's festival, and then down to the water. It's a nice night for sleeping under the waves.