Can You Hear Me

School carnival night. Five of them sneak off to the beach and pull out a card game. Skye Lin draws a question—she has to ask Victor Ban what he wants to be when he grows up. He thinks for a second. "A shark," he says. Then he looks at her. "You?" She turns toward the water. "A fish tank." One of them cuts through open ocean. The other holds something captive behind glass. Everyone already knows. A shark and a fish tank don't belong in the same world.