Water contains vast supernatural populations. We come from water and we drink water, or else it floods us. For all this to be true, one must be protean and indwelling, about the size of a microbe or the size of a grandmother. I thought I might be all of these things, I thought that I'd like to lurk around a portal and defend with overprotective, retaliatory gestures: a tornado watch in DC, for example. For all of this to be true, I'd have to reason, love, be compassionate. Such things melt us.