One evening, the forest fell into an unusual hush.
Even the cicadas—always loud and restless—
quieted all at once,
as if something unseen was passing through the trees.
A strange wind drifted in,
carrying a faint trace of salt
and the breath of somewhere far beyond the horizon.
The leaves whispered first,
then the squirrels, the birds,
and even the gently flowing creek joined in.
They had all heard the same rumor…
The legendary travelers—
the children of the wind,
the greatest adventurers of the world: the albatrosses,
were crossing the ocean from the far end of the earth,
soon to descend upon this tiny island.
Albatrosses are children of the wind.
They rise from the world’s very edge,
weaving between towering waves,
slipping through the deepest darkness and the fiercest storms,
until they greet the very first light of dawn.
They belong neither to the land nor to the sky,
they belong to the journey itself.
And when they arrive,
they will carry with them stories from faraway places,
tales whispered only by the sea
and secrets known only to the open sky.
