Lull and Storm
Lithuania was a sailor and Russia was the Sea.
One knows the dangers of the waters. They are never to be taken lightly and one should never take for granted the weather. For once done the waters will swallow them whole and leave calm in its wake. There was no one there, there had never been anyone there. There will never be someone there.
Yet there is the longing. Something there the waters offer that can never be gained on land. A certain freedom. A freedom in the captivity. Go wherever one would like in the Sea, but only where the small ship can take them. Try and go by oneself... and they will be destroyed.
People are not natural seafarers. It is much safer to stay on land.
So Lithuania tries to resist.
But the sea will not accept that answer.
And he gives in.