The boat was a small one, manned only by a boy not much older than Kanna. His name was Pakku, he was out fishing, and he was very annoyed that he had to leave off earning his livelihood in order to rescue a couple of girls who had been so foolish as to try canoeing in the ocean for the first time without any supervision.
He wouldn't say anything else, but he did pick up Ullori and Yugoda, and even hauled the canoe onto his little fishing boat, so Kanna was willing to forgive him. She thanked him very nicely when he dropped them all off in the city, told him her name, and said that she wouldn't mind seeing him around.
That was before her father came home and demanded to know what his daughters had been thinking when they had decided to take the canoe– that they knew was never meant to leave the carefully controlled canals– out onto the ocean.
Ullori had not told anyone about their little misadventure that morning. Yugoda had not told anyone. But Pakku had blabbed in his waterbending class about the girls he had rescued.
Kanna refused to forgive him for that.
