The Breath of Water, Ripples of the Heart

He was like a lonely mountain that had stood for ten thousand years, his heart a frozen lake in the still of winter. She was like a soft spring rain, quietly seeping in. Everyone feared his coldness, but she alone understood the tenderness beneath his silence. When disaster struck, the mountain crumbled and the snow melted, and the frozen lake began to boil. It turned out that the ultimate secret of Water Breathing was a surging tide of emotion, stirred to protect one person.