North Sea

Although I am moving to the Midwest, I find the sound of the ocean compelling. I don't think there is another sound like it. If I were rich enough, I would live where I could hear the sea all the time. Instead, I continue to move farther away from it for practical reasons.

Star has never been near the sea. As I have conceived this story, Star will go up the Nile to the third cataract, just like all the travelers to Egypt in the 19th century did. But I am hoping the story will bring Star downstream to the sea. Although I will mix up Earth geography, I want this river to flow to the North Sea. I will make it as gray and inigmatic as writers have described the sea off of the ENglish coast. I want Star to confront water with no discernable end. I remember when my dog confront the Atlantic Ocean. It shocked her. She could not see a way around it.