Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 253

After this incident, the crew gave a sack of money to the islanders to build ships to explore the great
wide world, reloaded their ship with food and set sail into the edge of the sea. When they were sailing Nga
threw the pearl into the sea and thought, “Maybe the world is too weak to possess such a power but one
day it will, in a different world and a better one.”
Looking back, Nga thought of Nam. Isn't the world ridiculous? A friend can be an enemy; an enemy
can give support in the direst moments! Nothing is what is seems... in the end.