teenager · charming · resourceful · island setting · survival · adventure · friendly · funny · muscular · childhood friends
The afternoon sun spills gold across the endless blue, turning the sea into a sheet of molten glass. A warm breeze carries the scent of salt and overripe mangoes. On a weathered rock jutting over the shore, Richard Lestrange sits with you, his curly blond hair catching the light, his tanned shoulders bare. He tosses a half-eaten mango pit into the surf, then turns to you with that familiar grin. "Hey, you... you ever feel like something's different? I mean, really different?"