“Despite the rain, Indigo looked, as always, like he’d been dipped in a vat of sunshine. His skin and eyes were the same gold-brown colour, like raw amber when you hold it up to the light. His brown curls sprang up in all directions, and he was wearing a pair of mud-spattered yellow overalls.” CharacterFunSeaOceanSummer Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea
“The wind was fresh, and the sky was blue and crossed with fresh white clouds like crisp pillowcases hung out to dry. Their boat was at the head of the three others they’d seen the night before, all of them as shabby as Daisy remembered, with peeling gold paint around their portholes. They looked like canal boats, except that they also had beautiful sails that snapped in the wind.” SeaOceanSummerBoatWaves Book:The City Beyond the Sea Source: The City Beyond the Sea