But I digress.
The water is a deep dark inky blue and I watch as my daughter is floating lifelessly into the open water. From the back she is only white arms and white legs and a webbing of blonde hair around her head and shoulders. She is now floating alongside the outside of the plane as it travels deeper past her into the blacker sea. She snaps awake and looks up. As I watch her I am telling her "Follow the bubbles. Follow the bubbles. Look up? See the bubbles? They go up. Bubbles go up to the surface. Now go. GO." and I watch as she powers her thin arms above her and she pulls herself through the water, long hair swirling around her face and around her shoulders, her arms like half-circles above her head and then pushing the weight of the water down behind her. Reach pull surge reach pull charge reach pull... She reaches the surface and sees her brother on an innertube, alive. And she turns towards the sound of churning water and watches her sister break the surface of the water with a deep exhale, her hair streaming over her eyes and face. Then I wake up.
As we sat watching the Olympics tonight we are chatting about how time is getting closer and closer for our departure. I said I was getting excited, but was also anxious to get settled into our apartment in Gibraltar and getting some downtime.
My youngest daughter says "I'm mostly nervous about flying. I don't want to think about flying over the ocean."
Then we talked about bubbles. My Beloved, not knowing I had dreamt about this, said later "That is good advice".
My prayer is that was only just a dream.
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