At 15, Nathaniel never imagined his life would take such a strange turn. Born and raised in the small coastal town of Windridge, he had always loved the sea, but he had never expected it to separate him from everything he knew. One stormy afternoon, as Nathaniel boarded the ship *Elysian Dream* for a summer voyage with his father, the ocean had seemed calm, almost inviting. But by dusk, a tempest unlike