Songs from Endless Times

I never liked the sea. I mean, I love looking at it, but being in it creeps me out. It's like if I were to swim out too far, some sea creature would wrap a tendril around my leg and pull me below the sunny surface. I'd panic. My eyes and ears and nose would fill with salt and sand and bits of shells, all frothing and noisy and overwhelming. Soon small bubbles would escape my lips and rise to the sky above, and, my breath spent, I would surrender, all struggle gone. Then maybe there'd...
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I never liked the sea. I mean, I love looking at it, but being in it creeps me out. It's like if I were to swim out too far, some sea creature would wrap a tendril around my leg and pull me below the sunny surface. I'd panic. My eyes and ears and nose would fill with salt and sand and bits of shells, all frothing and noisy and overwhelming. Soon small bubbles would escape my lips and rise to the sky above, and, my breath spent, I would surrender, all struggle gone. Then maybe there'd be a moment when, magically free of tendrils or concern, my body would float like a jellyfish on unseen currents, my hair tangled with bits of seaweed and suspended in the water around me like a halo. A tunnel of light would appear in that cool, blue-green water, and I'd find my footing in it as I was drawn toward the petite, dark-haired girl waiting for me at the end of the tunnel, standing in the light. My name is Mara Wolff, and this is my story. It's also a story about a young girl named Marie Corbett, a girl a lot like me and maybe not so different from you either, a girl who haunted me from across time and space, a girl who taught me to reclaim my soul and the power I had so willingly given away. I know that sounds strange and all, reclaiming my soul, but it's the truth. Marie haunted me until I didn't know where she ended and I began. I shimmered and shifted, and I was Marie, for the dream, for the moment, and then I was myself again. All my friends thought I had lost my mind, and maybe I did, for a time.