I've never heard the tide to apologize to stone but I've never known it to carry any knowledge or understanding either. Sediment of various courseness and size, critters, detritus, flotsam and jetsam maybe. The only constant about tides that I'm aware of; as surely as they come in, they also go out.

Penned by my hand on the 18th of Scarlatan, in the year 992 AF.