there's an albatross around your neck

The cool embrace of the water would wash against her legs and splash against her underbelly with her frolics within its bulk, clearly she seemed to enjoy its touch against her. For a moment it almost seemed as through she had forgotten the brute that stood before her, suffering her antics. But as she stilled the void within her eyes would dim, and she would cock her head to the side, appraising him with a puzzled frown. ?Polly?? she would say, this time fraising it as a question, pausing again as through she was trying to remember something that stood at the tip of her tongue. Finally, after a moment of silence she would begin again. ?Polly? Thats an awfully strange name you know, makes me wonder what on earth your parents where thinking? Her voice was oddly controlled, her eyes appraising him with some level of intelligence behind those silver eyes. It was as through a soul had sparked to life there, that added a new dimension to her being that simply had not been there before.