Tori tells us how Isabella, Grandpa and Tante Hilde make their way back through the marsh over the dike and back to Tante Hilde’s house. There they find a warm fire, a hearty bowl of salt marsh soup, and the answer to their question: what’s in the bottle. What they find inspires Isabella but Grandpa and Tante Hilde have their own reservations about the girl's newfound mission.

Tori and Connor are joined by Paran to talk about the importance of plants during a storm, and how they test their impact during storms using field experiments and models.

This series was developed and produced by the Story Engineer, Connor McMullen, as is distributed in collaboration with the Dutch International Storytelling Centre.

The Living Dikes Project is a consortium of Universities, research institutes, and Dutch Water Boards and provinces. In this episode we hear from Victoria Mason, a PhD Candidate at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Paran Pourteimouri, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente and a guest researcher at Deltares.

Special thanks to the sound artists whose Creative Commons sounds and recordings helped bring our stories to live. Most of the birds, animals, and nature sounds you hear in these stories are from the collection of Klankbeeld, the Dutch Sound Museum.