A New Blue Line

The football field closed for repairs. Some students blamed Lio until the engineers found a hollow beneath the goalposts. The rebuilt channel ended in a small public pond, safely fenced and planted with reeds. Bea drew a new map for the school noticeboard. She coloured the pond blue and marked the buried water with a dotted line. Lio added a warning beside the old drain: never enter. They had not discovered a missing sea, but they had learned that a useful adventure could begin with asking for help.