For a year the water had been calm,

until the horizon swelled and rose into a wall of water,

a living sky folding itself over the city.

It wrecked the dull and fragile city of Raythem.

When the townsfolk saw the aftermath, they were astonished.

The wave hadn’t ruined the city-

it had stripped all of the gray and white paint from every building,

revealing messy, vibrant, and beautiful colors splas...