On the way to the beach, Rabbit told Julie her story.
Hundreds of years ago, the rabbit was accidentally stranded in the desert and was saved by a river god, a young one named Tata. Rabbit pleaded with Tata to take her back to her seaside home, but Tata didn't know what the sea was.
Rabbit was astonished. She also knew some river gods. All rivers flow into the sea. How could there be a river god who had never seen the sea? So Tata took her to see the end of his river. There, the flow dwindled, becoming smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared into the arid desert.