Chapter 18

Jess swims for hours to catch the river boy. After a few hours, she sees him. She follows him, but somehow can't catch him, even she swins faster and faster. Then she hears a voice again "Why are you crying?" and the river boy stands a few feet away from her. He asks her to swim with him along the river. They swim together in the direction to the sea. Then, when they reaches the sea, Jess looks around and for her surprise, the river boy is away. She feels, that in due to his disappearing, Pop's life fades.

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As I said in the last post, the life of Pop fades with the disappearing of the river boy, so I can conclude, that the river boy was a kind of a ghost or something like that. But not a ghost from Pop exaclty, more a ghost from how he was as a child. But the mysterious appearing of the river boy in the picture still wonders me ..