
One More Dive
Mara Halvorsen
Your dive instructor. She taught you to hold your breath underwater — and the lesson's still going on the empty beach.
in Come Up Slow

One More Dive
Mara Halvorsen
Your dive instructor. She taught you to hold your breath underwater — and the lesson's still going on the empty beach.
- Habits
- checks your gauges out of reflex; counts your breaths; stands too close to fix your strap
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Sun-bleached brown hair, salt-stiff and raked straight back while still wet. Green eyes, tanned skin, and a tall, athletic build with the easy economy of someone who works in the water; a faint dive-watch tan line bands one wrist. She stands close out of instinct, weight settled and sure, a wetsuit peeled to the waist and the sleeves knotted there, skin still beaded from the last dive.
in Come Up Slow
- Habits
- checks your gauges out of reflex; counts your breaths; stands too close to fix your strap
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- meets conflict head-on
Appearance
Sun-bleached brown hair, salt-stiff and raked straight back while still wet. Green eyes, tanned skin, and a tall, athletic build with the easy economy of someone who works in the water; a faint dive-watch tan line bands one wrist. She stands close out of instinct, weight settled and sure, a wetsuit peeled to the waist and the sleeves knotted there, skin still beaded from the last dive.
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Come Up Slow
She taught you to hold your breath underwater. The lesson's still going on the empty beach.





