Suddenly, a gossamer prescience too delicate to name floated before him, and then it became him. This was the place: his life’s true destination, the point of work, fortitude, hope, and valor. Lewis understood everything now. And then, faster than the insight came to him, it faded, and he was once again a man with an incurable disease who loved his life, his wife. In the same moment, awe replaced Wren’s usual mental activity, trying to know, do, plan, and control. Wren was simply a human being existing on the surface of Planet Earth, and he, and he, and he—Man of Sea. It just was. They were,
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