Boon

If it wasn't for Davis, the little gaffe with the aquatic acrobatics and the village trial leader would have turned the entire community against Sean John. But thanks to his cultural brilliance, the event was seen as a great for Sean John relations boon all over Brazil.

Eudemonia

Sean John stared at the doctor. "So what you're saying, doc, is that I've been filling my own life with the life from the ocean as a kind of replacement for my childhood lack? "

The doctor nodded. His German accent emerged when delineating scientific jargon. "it is only through mastery of the seemingly uncontrollable object -in your case, the wild creatures of the sea - that you are able t achieve eudemonia. "

Luxate

He could see the tiny fin luxate as Sean John worked his hands along the injured baby shark. The shark tamer's excitement in the water was matched only by his halcyon on the examination table.

Remit

The water would slosh wildly for several seconds, sometimes even a whole minute, before the struggle would remit. The water becomes calm once more, and Sean John emerges from below astride the finned beast: another shark tamed.

Furcate

As she looked at the man riding the shark across the bay, bringing the supplies that the islander's needed to stay alive in this crisis, she knew that Sean-John's path and her's were going were furcate lines. She wouldn't be able to remain by his side for much longer. She stared at the sun.