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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.79,0:00:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before she knew it, the tide had turned \Nand Solanna had lost her sealskin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.17,0:00:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not only that, now she had \Narms and legs and feet like a girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.43,0:00:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She looked around frantically\Nfor her sealskin,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.01,0:00:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn't see it anywhere \Nfor an age,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.44,0:00:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, looking out to sea, \Nshe saw it, bobbing on a big breaker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.52,0:00:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before it went under \Nand disappeared.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.69,0:00:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She tried to swim after it, \Nbut not being a seal anymore,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.16,0:00:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she couldn't get past the waves\Nand was thrown back on the sand.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.88,0:00:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She started to cry loud \Npitiful wails for her mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.60,0:00:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hitting her new legs and stamping \Nher new feet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.51,0:00:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and waving her long, \Nterrible human arms
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.40,0:00:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then she saw her mother \Nskim across the waves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.86,0:00:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with four salmon between her teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.62,0:00:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Mummy!"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.96,0:01:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solanna roared into the wind \Nand the tide, but it was useless.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.40,0:01:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was as her mother had told her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.55,0:01:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, she was a seal maiden.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.74,0:01:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alone and naked in a terrible body \Nthat her mother would never recognise.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.83,0:01:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even her voice \Ndidn't sound like her own.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.68,0:01:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She watched her mother disappear \Naround the edge of the cliff
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.30,0:01:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wondered, would \Nshe ever see her again?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.21,0:01:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was dark when the fisherman \Nfound the sealmaiden.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.01,0:01:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She lay on the sand asleep \Nwith seaweed in her hair
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.19,0:01:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sea in her dreams.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.97,0:02:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gathered her up and carried her\Nto his house along the shore
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.07,0:02:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and dressed her and fed her \Nand tried to make her talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.26,0:02:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The seal maiden wept and sang \Nand slept through days
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.04,0:02:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nights that seemed to go on forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.87,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fisherman watched and waited.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had heard of creatures \Nlike her before,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.34,0:02:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creatures that come up out of the sea
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.46,0:02:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are stranded here among us, \Nlost and miserable.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.35,0:02:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was kind to the creature and \Ntaught her all he could about the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.51,0:02:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At night, he could hear waves crash \Nand roll in her heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.15,0:02:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,louder than the waves \Ndown at the shore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.23,0:02:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sound of the tide\Nin her made him sad
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.33,0:02:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for he knew that this little seal maiden\Nached to be among her own kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.54,0:02:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he was powerless to help her,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.82,0:02:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing where her sealskin was\Nor how he might find it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.53,0:03:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He noticed the only thing that brought \Nher out of herself was music
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.74,0:03:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he played his fiddle for her
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.83,0:03:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes she would sing for him \Nall the songs she had learned under the waves.