

Rhea turned her head to look at her daughter. How many times could they go through this before it ended in tragedy? It didn’t seem to matter how often or vehemently Rhea explained to the child the many dangers of the sea - Melaina wouldn’t be deterred. Rhea was fast losing numbers to count her daughter’s expeditions. This wasn’t the first time Melaina had disappeared, or the second or third. Embarrassment and anger blazed at the surface, but those emotions weren’t what had her hearts pounding in a hollow chest, those weren’t what made her throat feel tight and her limbs tremble. Her fingers flexed on the youngling’s wrist, and it took all her willpower to keep from squeezing tighter. Rhea swam ahead of the search party, pulling Melaina along beside her. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Ĭover by Cameron Kamenicky and Naomi Lucas Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real.

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