On the day she was born, global tides were abnormal for forty-seven seconds.
No one knows why.
Thirty years later, she dreamed of a body of water. After waking up, my lower abdomen had an extra arc. The B-ultrasound showed nothing, but the pregnancy test stick was clean. Every day when the tide goes out, it rotates.
She's not the first. There are women like her all over the world, with the same dream and the same arc. They were gathered together for protection because they could sense tsunamis in advance. The observation center said: This is a connection between an unknown marine creature and humans through dreams.
Later, everyone else recovered, but her arc remained. She told no one—she sensed more than just the tsunami. There are also some things that live in the deep sea and make no sound. They only emit low-frequency vibrations when the salt content of the seawater changes. She could hear their location and guess the direction in which they were moving. They didn't speak, but she knew they were there. The auditory cortex she was born with seems to have been ready to receive these signals.
When the second tsunami came, she stood behind the glass on the top floor. Everyone else was running, but she wasn't. She said something to the wall of water.
The water stopped.
The next day her arc disappeared. There is no evidence of what happened. But every day when the tide goes out, she would go to the beach and stand, immersing her ankles in the water, and feeling something small flowing around her.
She didn't know what it was. All she knew was that she was the only one who could still feel them.
Concept: There are some things in the world that science cannot explain for the time being. But being unable to explain it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just hasn't been named yet.