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LOST AT SEA Young Lloyd lives in Kingston, Jamaica. He comes from a long line of fishermen and feels most at home with the sea and his grandfather, Maas Conrad, at his side. One day his grandfather doesn’t return from a fishing trip to Pedro Bank. Lloyd is worried. Is his grandfather lost at sea?
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The boy sat beside the crumbling wall and stared out to sea. It was full dark and rain hissed on the water, but he was sheltered from the downpour where he sat. He saw a swirl of phosphorescence in the sea, gone so quickly he might have imagined it, might have merely wished for it because it was his grandfather who had told him about the tiny creatures that lived in the sea and at night shone blue in the wakes of boats and drew the deep ghostly shapes of fish. His grandfather said Kingston Harbour had once been full of them, that no night’s fishing would have passed without seeing the shining mystery. “Where they go, Gramps?” the boy had asked. “Sea too dirty for them.” crumbling förfallna hissed brusade sheltered skyddad downpour störtregn swirl virvel phosphorescence ljusskimmer merely endast
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