The bottle was small and green, like the kind youâd keep a message in if you wanted it to last.
I almost missed it, caught in the rocks.
Inside: a water-stained scrap of paper, with only seven words still legible:
âIâm still here. The sea remembers me.â
I turned the bottle over and over in my hands.
It had no name. No origin.
But somehow, it felt like a reply.
I never saw the ship myself, onl...