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Open Ocean

Slash! The nose of the huge antagonistic fish pierces his skin like a knife through butter. He moans and screeches for only a minute, but feels like a lifetime. His whole future at sea shines before him as a blurry disarray of fear and pain.

 

It was a cold and dreary day in the endless moors of the Scottish highlands. Kazuya’s eyes shone bright over the faithless and barren land. The flocks of sheep are a welcoming sight to Kazuya: a lone fisherman struggling to get to the path.

Jin, the brother of Kazuya, awaits his arrival in the small fishing shack in the valley. The potent smell of raw, discarded fish overwhelms Jin’s senses so he waits outside under the watchful eyes of the Aonach Eagach.

Kazuya, now on the path outside the run down shack questions, “Any buyers?”

“Nope, not today and probably not ever,” replies Jin.

“Why do we even try?” wonders Kazuya.

“We can’t make a decent living out of this business, we need something other than cod and haddock” argues Jin.

“What fish can we sell instead?” said Kazuya.

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A week later Kazuya and Jin still had no sells. They needed a way of getting out, a way of freeing them from this endless slavery.

Kazuya realised his dreams of fishing on the open ocean were closing. His lifetime dream shattering before his eyes, but the pointed peak of the Aonach Eagach gave him an idea. He realised the big money was in the big fish, Marlin: but marlins are found in the open ocean. His dreams, as big as the ocean are soon to be filled with reality just as the ocean is full of water.

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