Some themes are not solutions. Some themes are the shape of a question, held carefully in both hands, passed from one Wave to the next, never quite answered but never forgotten.
The Curator’s water-surface flickered. For a moment it showed Kaelen his own reflection, then a version of himself ten years older, then a version of himself that had never been born. New Themes For Wave 525
The tide rose around their ankles. Then their knees. Then their waists. Kaelen felt the water fill his lungs not with drowning but with possibility —every unwept tear, every unborn goodbye, every door that had never been built, now open. Some themes are not solutions
Kaelen withdrew his hands. They were dry. held carefully in both hands