Summary

The narrator explains how many years later, people would wonder what would have happened if the events of that moment never occurred. They wondered if the boy never would have gained so much control and whether the uncle would not have died in the grisly manner he did.

Lee Ah Boon is seven years old, and his nine-year-old brother, Hia, looks down upon him for not yet taking a boat ride before today. Hia taunts Ah Boon in the boat and tells him that as a fisherman’s son, he will be asked to get out of the boat in the middle of the sea at dark. The fishermen stop because suddenly there is an island in front of them that neither Hia nor his father, who has been fishing in these waters for ages, has ever seen before. Ah Boon...