Paper Sailboats

by EveningCicada

Ruto and Punchy are involved in an accident that changed both their lives forever. Sure, an origami boat can't do much to turn things around, but can it be enough to strengthen their power of believing - and the power of love?

1. Prologue

Prologue

I like making paper sailboats. It's quite honestly the only thing I know how to make as far as origami goes, but I enjoy hanging them from my ceiling, by my window, and even seeing how far they can last in water without drowning. They are only paper, after all.

Sometimes life can be like paper. We may fold it and unfold it at times, we may make creases. Sometimes we get tears across it, but we're still alive, right? At times, it can feel like our lives are crumpled up, much like a piece of old paper. And second chances are like flipping over to the other side.

Every once in a while, though, life may seem as empty and uneventful as a blank, white piece of paper.

Oh, but if you're clever enough, you'll never have that problem.

This is where origami comes in to play. Take your sheet of emptiness and turn it into something beautiful.

And this is how I learned the way of paper sailboats.

I hope you have a few minutes, because I'd like to share something with you.

I'd like to show you something.