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Author Insight
The Waters of Healing
This section uses sensory details—the distinct smell, the soothing thermal pool, and the battered turtle—to establish the island as a place of refuge and restoration. Clayann’s backstory shifts the narrative from a simple arrival to a story about recovering from life's storms, setting up her role as a compassionate caregiver who helps others heal.
Book Excerpt
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When they arrived at the island, they met the mermaid Clayann. Clayann welcomed them and asked them if the smell bothered them? They had to admit to her that it was very different, but they were getting used to it.
Clayann laughed and said, “Everybody says that.”
Clayann told them that she had arrived at the island many years ago. She had been caught in a bad storm and the rough waves had thrown her up onto the island. She had landed beside a large pool of warm water which had steam rising from it. She had rolled into the warm pool and had slept there for the night. When she awoke the next morning, the storm had gone, and she looked around to see where she was. She noticed that her skin felt very soft and refreshed. She looked down toward the beach and saw a strange looking rock on the sand. She went down and found it was a turtle with his flippers limp by his side. He had been tossed around by the rough waves also but had landed on the rocks, and his shell was all battered and bruised and cut up.
She said, “Hello little turtle.”
The turtle opened his eyes and said, “Owwwwww. My shell hurts.”
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