“That it goes beyond culture,” Avery says. “That it’s in our nature as humans. Our world is more sea than land. We came from the sea, we eat from the sea, we travel across the seas. We seek out the salt water to soothe our bodies and our worries. The sea is part of us. Whether we live at the shore or not. I believe this is what that Willis guy must have felt when he reached the port city for the first time. The moment he saw the bay and breathed in the coastal air, he may have recognized a part of himself that had been missing.”
