3
Nadine
My boots sank in the sand.
“Whoa,” I said, staring at the sea.
Just three feet from me, the dark water glowed with millions of bright blue spots.
“Long ago, humans proved those shining spots were simply science,” Victor said, standing beside me. “Phytoplanktons capable of bioluminescence. To a certain extent, they were right. But this was always Maho’s doing.”
“Whenever he stays a little while in a single location, the place absorbs his magic,” Ceris added. “That’s why many places believed in magic. Like the Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan, the Red Sea beach in China, the Zhangye Danxia Landform, also in China, and the Turquoise Ice in Russia.”
“It’s beautiful,” I whispered.
“It was even more so before,” Ceris said, her voice solemn as if she were mourning the loss of beauty
