Buckets and Broomsticks

"Perhaps you do not recall, but when you were very small I found you hauling a bucket of water up the stone staircase of the Regia. I asked you what you were doing, and you said you meant to make your very own ocean in your playroom. You were 'hauling in the stream,' you told me. Rather ambitious for a four-year-old." Drabble to accompany All the Wrong Choices.