Admiral Shayell's life continued to unfold in my mind. I knew that part of King Andrew's punishment included making Admiral Shayell wed Rissa. Because Shayell's refusal to take Rissa's dolphin-speech gift seriously was at least partly responsible for the loss of his fleet, the king decided that Shayell should become the father of children with the gift.
Rissa's first child was a daughter, whom he named Rouwenza ("eucatastrophe" or "turning bad to good" in Old Ixilon) as a covert defiance of his king's curse. The girl proved to have the gift of dolphin-speech, and soon her mother was taking her out to meet the dolphins that frequented the waters around Association Point.
By this point deeply in love with Rissa and exceedingly fond of his daughter, Admiral Shayell would often come out to the shore and watch mother and child play with dolphins that would come into the shallow waters. Because he lacks the magical gift of dolphin-speech which Rissa has passed to Rouwenza, he feels a certain wistfulness at what he can never share.
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