Beyond The Blue

in? And what is prophecy, if it will bind

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eflections on its glassy surface, a fortress had emerged from the water like a broken tooth. Its towers were cut from basalt, bl

ools in which leviathans rested. His body was scarred by the marks of a thousand tides, and the hunger in his am

the sea knew the moon, he knew t

puffed from his nostri

-frantic speed, and soon returned with a hooded woman in sea-glass robes and barnacle-beaded hair

know," she

her. "He swims in

ell. "With her. The moon-born. The

"She should n

t stop her, not with tooth or f

the sea below as if even ancie

Then I will take her befor

ke cold iron. "But know this, Thornjaw. The tides are not t

"Then let the old gods

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he sea breathed in troubled time. Within Merbel's cliffside hu

ear. His shirt billowed loose over him, torn at the neck from the wreck the day before. Salt had left a deposit along hi

of blue moss only she dared to gather. Her hands trembled more than t

't tense, not quite. It pul

acobal breathed

still. "What make

er waiting to be awakened. And because I see them too. The temples beneath t

him. "How do

walked slowly towards her, n

th a secret," he said. "You're a bri

f stirred, not with danger, but

sping for a cup. "Yo

truth would b

tle were the only no

me here. Not altogether. But when I discovered you on the cliff. it was as if a

, but with desire. She had spent her entire life hiding. Foldi

an who spoke of blood-moons a

ands trembling. "What a

ll the ocean on his skin. "A traitor. A bearer of

n with storm at the edges. "But I'd be al

Closer. The air thrummed wi

the tea b

epped back. The mome

d went to open the window,

sea crashed harder

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f the cliff, her feet bare, her cloak billowing in the wind. The moon hun

re. Come home, Daughter of Ti

her in silence. "You'

es

n. "She calls to you

was born on land. I shift under the mo

was more than

d at him. "Y

her people. And I know what sh

omplained with more noise, as if they sensed

don'

not

's ever worth

at if becoming me dest

t it. So something better

or how effortlessly he spoke.

ok his

herself to lean against him, her heartbea

ow was whisp

ve were begin

w, Edrik leaned over a m

already sailing

rled. "Before the m

ched from t

sm

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