A young woman who has had to deal with much disappointment and heartbreak in her life finds herself in an accident at sea and finds herself on a seemingly deserted island.
Until she is confronted by a man that completely baffles her with his words...
I uttered a mirthless laugh and prized open the locket. Spreading the locket wide open I pulled my hand away and allowed the crab to see the small conch nestled in the middle of the driftwood.
Peara stared at the conch for a long moment, her mouth wide open in shock.
'' Y-you kept it? You kept it for twenty years?'' she finally choked out.
'' Of course, I kept it, it was a gift from a friend,'' I answered sadly and tugged on the thin rope I'd discovered.
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(P.S. The sizes of the characters didn't turn out quite the way I imagined. Peara should have been a bit bigger.
The other necklace around the conch necklace is another part of the story.)
...
It came out rather easily and now I was holding a small water-tight packet with a roll- of- film clearly seen through the see-through object.
Peara watched in silence, seemingly holding her breath as I opened the pouch and pulled out the roll of film.
What I saw as I unfurled the roll of film brought every possible feeling to crash down on me in a matter of seconds.
It really was filled with pictures of the world I'd jumped into on my own accord.
Different monsters were displayed, including a monstrous sized, one hundred to two hundred feet crab staring right into the camera with confusion on its face.
I found myself slumping against the wall of the cavern with the film still held in my hands, my eyes closed tightly shut as I pulled my knees to my chest and rested my face against them.
'' I'd always known my father is a scientist, but I never knew... I-I mean he never revealed any of THESE findings to the press. I-I can hardly believe he actually found Lalotai during his sailing expeditions. The same place I'm in right now. T-then that means I'm not from another world after all, but from a different timeline,'' I stammered as tears brimmed in my eyes and spilt down my cheeks (and dripped onto my knees).
I looked up when I felt a soft touch of crab antennae brushing at the tears on my cheeks.
'' I'm sorry I didn't believe you,'' I whispered, when Peara leaned her head on my lap, nuzzling her long antennae against my cheeks.
''Are you okay?'' she asked hesitantly and I sighed shakily, petting my friend on the head.
'' I'm... coping. Mind telling me how you ended up back in Lalotai?'' I answered despondently.
'' On the day you left me to explore the beach while you were at school, I spent hours roaming the beach-side for pretty shells to decorate my enclosure when all of a sudden a sentient blob of water rose out of the ocean and grabbed me. It pulled me underwater and I believed I was going to die of suffocation but instead I found myself inside a bubble. And as I was pulled along the sea-floor I kept seeing images of a time when humans weren't as advanced as in your time, and the images kept going back in time to an age where the humans had no houses and no settlements. They lived in the woods hunting and gathering.''
