Test Dragon Ball

PICTURE THE SCENE

Your bag still holds the drawing of Double Tide: a blue spiral inside an amber circle, with your name and Mira’s underneath. You invented it during your first ki practices at Kame House. Then you left the island for a year. Your messages grew less frequent; Mira hugs you when you return, but you don’t yet know whether you have kept the same things from that time. You are both adults now and can produce small pulses of light. Bulma has suspended three targets above the sea. Their blue centres and amber rings hold the light of your pulses for a few moments, long enough to trace a shape. At sunset you will perform a short sequence for visitors arriving by ferry, between demonstrations by Goku, Krillin and Piccolo. Master Roshi asks for a title to put on the programme. You say ‘Double Tide’ before asking Mira. She sees the paper poking out of your bag. ‘You’ve still got it,’ she says. Then she draws two circles in the sand, a little farther apart than you remember.