First off, I really liked this story, so I was very glad it could be included in my last batch as Shorts Editor.KVesi wrote:One question for the author, or other readers: why does the main character say sorry in the end? Why not thank you?
Personally, I took the "I'm sorry" to mean sorry for not believing the story was real, for not keeping the family tradition going, for being gone so long, for forcing the serpent to have to rescue the narrator, and perhaps also for the shells that were broken in the narrator's rescue, necessitating their replacement. Any one or all of those things would be good enough to say you were sorry, in my opinion, at least.