The little turtle

Previously

…He didn’t know what lay ahead, what this burgeoning power meant, or why it had chosen him. But as he drifted off to sleep, the faint, internal glow of his shell a comforting secret, Randy knew one thing for certain: his life would never be the same again. The quiet whispers of his shell were the first notes of a song he had yet to learn, a song that would soon carry him far beyond the tranquil waters of the Great Pond. The world, he sensed, was about to become a great deal larger, and a great deal more dangerous.