Ondine Page #6

Stop it! Stop it.

- Listen to me. Listen to me...

- Look at me, little girl.

- Don't make me bite.

- Did you move it, Annie?

...he digs it up and then she doesn't

stay for seven years...

Tell them where you moved it

before they hurt somebody, OK?

I don't want you to go.

If you tell me where you moved it,

I promise I stay.

- How long?

- As long as you want.

I'll find a job on a fishing boat,

anything. Just tell me.

- Cross your heart?

- Cross my heart and hope to die.

- The lobster pot.

- The lobster pot?

- What lobster pot?

- The one for storage.

- OK, show us.

- Out there.

Show us, baby.

Give it here...

It's full of water.

- He's not a selkie, is he?

- No, he isn't.

- You still are.

- It was vacuum packed.

Always.

Help! I can't swim. Help!

Keep that gun on him.

- So he couldn't breathe underwater?

- No, he couldn't.

- Does that mean he drowned?

- Don't you worry about it, love.

- That's it, lads. Over this way now.

- All right.

All right, let's go.

- Is this not an AA meeting?

- I don't know.

Thing is, Father, she's

in front of the judge next week.

- And?

- And she's a non-national.

And?

And this is the confessional,

Father, we're not talking gossip here.

I'm still an oak.

I thought you were a

what-do-you-call-it...

- An ash.

- An ash.

Well, her solicitor said

she'll get deported

if she doesn't become a national.

So she has to apply

to the Department of Justice.

Or... she gets... married.

So, who's going to marry her, Syracuse?

Well... it's not like

there's a queue, Father.

- Well, I can't marry her.

- No. You're a tree.

Exactly.

And I threw the

selkie coat in the water.

I told a lie about that, too.

Wasn't a real lie, was it?

Because I wanted her to stay forever.

She's staying forever?

Yeah. Haven't you heard?

They're getting married

next week to make her a national.

So I suppose she isn't a selkie, really.

Because you can't marry a seal,

can you?

No. You definitely cannot.

Not in the real quotidian world anyway.

- Quotidian?

- Yeah.

Means the one we have to live in.

If she was a seal, though,

would you still do the wedding?

Me?

What about your past lives?

- Are you sure I have them?

- Yeah, everybody does.

It's just a matter of remembering.

- Stop peeping, would you?

- I don't peep.

I mean, you could have even

been married in one of them...

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