Slowly, the water rose toward our floating friend….menacingly…. or maybe the size of the wave only appeared menacing…. the water rose higher above him, almost casting a full shadow and blocking out the sun. He braced himself and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath…..it impacted… destroying a small portion of his makeshift home-turned-raft and pushing a few of the trees he’d been eating from away from his boat for a time.

He was, for the most part, unscathed, minus a few small scratches from sea debris carried by the wave.

Two islands appeared in the distance.

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