A Boy on the Docks
Fin dreams of sailing the seven seas
My name is Fin, and I work on the .
Every morning, I heavy boxes to the ships.
I am poor, but I have one big .
I want to across the seven seas.
I watch the ships and faraway lands.
My father was a many years ago.
He told me stories about islands and gold.
But he never came back from his last trip.
Now I live alone in a small room.
One evening, a strange ship came into the .
Its sails were white, and its showed a moon.
A tall woman walked down onto the .
She was the , and her name was Vela.
"You work hard, boy," she said with a smile.
"I watched you boxes all day long."
"My ship needs a young and ."
"Do you want to my ?" she asked.
My heart jumped, but my hands started to shake.
"I am not ," I said in a small voice.
" sailors are not born ," Vela said.
"The sea makes them , day by day."
I looked at her ship and then at the sea.
For the first time, my felt real.
"Yes," I said. "I want to with you."
That night, I could not sleep at all.