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Within the magic of literature, kindness is repentance, reconciliation and recuperation. Repent: just as Prospero is repentant in the last act of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Britain repents its past ecological destruction by allowing for the coastline to be given back to the sea. Reconcile: a retreat of the British coastline provides a new zone of international sovereignty, welcoming climate refugees from all nationalities, a reconciliation of post-Brexit Britain with the international community. Recuperate: protagonists of the floating city are appointed the environmental warriors meant to pioneer new, sustainable, utopian communities, recuperating the damaged British coast. The new community embraces Arial, representative of sea level rise, climate change and the wild spirit of ecology. The two faces of humanity are both practical and romantic, logical yet ideal—Prospero’s idealism allows us to venture into the unknown, embracing the fluctuation of ecology and the emancipatory power of Arial’s storm. The poetic and magical, tempest, in Prospero’s books empowers and redeems the citizens it originally renounced. Could the naive fantasies of Prospero recuperate the societies and ecologies which were once destroyed?