The moonlight reflected the subtle ripples of water on the sea's surface. The tide was beating against the beach, and the full moon cast a layer of silver on the surface of the deep blue sea.
Hong Kangquan wore the diving mask that Ito had given him as he descended into the sea. As he sunk underwater, he looked up at the bright moonlight in the dark blue sky.
No matter how many miles apart people were, every person in the world shared this one moon.
He wondered about the first person who'd ever seen the moon. How much had humans progressed since then?
Every person in every generation lived a different life, yet from a viewpoint so high up in the sky, everything must appear to stay the same from decade to decade.
He would probably never again see the blue sky or the moon above this part of the world, right? Hong Kangquan sighed. With a heavy heart, he gradually sank below the sea's surface.
