To be fair, the new and improved view was not the problem.
Actually, if there was anything remotely calming about the current situation, it was the fact that everyone had just witnessed the birth of something most of them had previously only read about in books.
The sea.
Not that they had never seen bodies of water categorized as such before, but there was a big difference between just seeing one and knowing they could safely experience it.
A sea untouched by chemical treatment, had not been man-made, and yet one that carried no fear of accidental contamination.
With something so unusual, who among them—people who had lived protected inside human domes that even had to manufacture their own oxygen—wouldn't cough up a lung upon learning that such a place existed?
Take Theo and his rapidly beating heart, for example.
