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“Anything.”

“Then I’ll be a wrong man with a right heart,” HC said. “But if I’m right…” Lykkeland -State of Happiness- - season 1 -HC E...

“I’m not trying to erase what we are, Anna. I’m trying to give us a choice. Right now, the only choice is fish or starve. But if Phillips finds what I think they will…” He let the sentence hang, heavy as a trawler’s anchor. “Anything

He pulled a folded telegram from his inside pocket. It was brief, typed in the clipped language of American oilmen: HC ERIKSEN – SEISMIC PROMISING. EKOFISK STRUCTURE CONFIRMED. STOP. NEED LOCAL LIASON. STOP. YOU IN OR OUT? STOP. Anna read it twice. Her hand trembled slightly—from cold, or from fear, she didn’t know. Right now, the only choice is fish or starve

HC nodded slowly. He didn’t promise. He couldn’t. Because already, in the back of his mind, he was imagining derricks instead of masts, pipelines instead of fishing lines. Already, Lykkeland was ceasing to be a mockery and starting to become a prophecy.

“Just promise me one thing,” she said.

“When you find your black gold… don’t forget that the sea gave it. And the sea can take it back.”