the mysteries of the sea. it could be both! that's the thing about whales; whales don't feel the need to tell you all of their secrets.
a few days later, up on what used to be a mountain, we saw a forest fire starting in the near distance. the clouds that had passed off in the distance had dropped lightning in among the brush, but we had just driven through all of those forests and seen the ways that the trees were ready for them, how they created layers specifically to be burned off. a hour later we drove straight into that storm and it gave us buckets of ice, thrown 