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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.78,0:00:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High in the sky, high up there\NThe moon is laughing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.19,0:00:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen stranger, she has\NLaughing and dancing way up there
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.34,0:00:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High in the sky, high up there\NThe moon is laughing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.83,0:00:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen stranger, she has\NLaughing and dancing way up there
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.69,0:00:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She brings in the tide, sends us to sleep\NWe dream in her light and think awful deep
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.46,0:00:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makes us loony with her mad tune\NThat only comes once in a true blue moon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.59,0:00:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High in the sky, high up there\NThe moon is laughing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.92,0:01:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen stranger, she has\NLaughing and dancing way up there
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.49,0:01:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High in the sky, high up there\NThe moon is laughing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.87,0:01:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen stranger, she has\NLaughing and dancing way up there
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.81,0:01:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She brings in the tide, sends us to sleep\NWe dream in her light and think awful deep
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.41,0:01:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makes us loony with her mad tune\NThat only comes once in a true blue moon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.57,0:02:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,High in the sky, high up there\NThe moon is laughing everywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.99,0:02:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen a stranger, she has\NLaughing and dancing way up there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.69,0:02:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seal maiden woke to \Nhear a tapping on their door.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.66,0:02:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boy stood there, dripping seaweed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.76,0:02:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with mackerel bones in his teeth \Nand the smell of salt all around him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.76,0:02:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his hands, he carried two sealskins, \None off-white, which was his own,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.70,0:02:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of a dawn grey which \Nbelonged to the seal maiden.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.71,0:02:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Come, quick, before the tide turns \Nand we're trapped here!" said the boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.15,0:02:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together, they ran for the surf,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.47,0:03:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the seal maiden throwing off her clothes\Nas they stumbled over rocks and dunes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.42,0:03:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one but the moon saw \Nthem putting on their sealskins.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.11,0:03:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She laughed and continued dancing. \NShe'd seen stranger, sure she had.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.06,0:03:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the seal maiden felt the first rush \Nof cold spray, she whooped and shrieked with joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.14,0:03:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when she saw, coming towards her\Nin swift, powerful motion, an old grey seal,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.27,0:03:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she forgot how to swim for a moment,\Nwent under, and came up crying, "Mother! Mother!"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.28,0:03:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there she was, Solanna the Elder,\Nolder, battered by her many sea battles,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.76,0:03:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but unmistakably \Nthe seal maiden's mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.30,0:03:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All night they swam, dove, \Nflipped themselves over,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.88,0:03:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went after a shoal of salmon \Nand then of whiting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.01,0:03:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for dessert, a big congery leech.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.63,0:04:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At last, exhausted and stuffed, \Nthey paddled slowly to the cave
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.62,0:04:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to lie up on the wide \Ndark ledges to sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.52,0:04:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just before he closed his eyes,\Nthe seal boy asked the seal maiden,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.67,0:04:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How is my father?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.11,0:04:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't think of him now," \Nthe seal maiden answered
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.74,0:04:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for to tell the truth, she'd \Nbeen thinking of him herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.34,0:04:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I can't help it," answered the seal boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.05,0:04:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Your son will yearn the land\Nas you have yearned the sea,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.57,0:04:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solanna the Elder said to the seal maiden.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.100,0:04:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I won't go back to the earth," \Nsaid the seal maiden.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.92,0:04:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No," said Solanna the Elder, "but you must\Nlet the boy go when the time comes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.15,0:04:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is half earth, and half sea. \NHalf boy, half seal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.75,0:04:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you must give him safe passage \Neach time he wants to go ashore.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.40,0:04:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You must guard his sealskin \Nwhen he steps onto the sand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.22,0:05:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be there waiting with it for him \Nwhen he wants to return to the sea."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.21,0:05:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will certainly do that,"\Nthe seal maiden said, and she did
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.38,0:05:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the seal boy went ashore sometimes\Nand lived among the people of the earth
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.08,0:05:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spoke long into the\Nnight with Red Brian, his father
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.54,0:05:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went out fishing with him
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.86,0:05:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was always luck on\Nthe catch when the seal boy was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.23,0:05:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the seal maiden would watch her son and \NRed Brian to see they were safe and content
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.53,0:05:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and no harm came to them
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.78,0:05:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then she would return east for the cave \Nand the company of Solanna the Elder
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.98,0:05:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mermaids and all her own kind.