On deck, as his parents exclaimed delight at the setting sun’s fiery display, the boy saw her lunar ladder drop to the ocean. He watched wide-eyed as she climbed down the silver stream. His parents didn’t notice the sleek back of a dolphin rise from the water’s surface exactly at the moment she let go. Leaning over the rail, the boy followed their progress until the pair vanished in the dark.
The boy looked up at the moonless sky and smiled. So, that’s where the moon went once a month.