Daughter of the Sea by Mira Zamin

Author:Mira Zamin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gods, rome, roman, atlantis, greece, ancient rome, goddesses
Publisher: Mira Zamin

CHAPTER XIV

Calista was wandering around the Agora stalls, a habit she had developed over the past few weeks. She had been here long enough to accept the reality of Atlantis, with all its strangeness and magic, but not a day passed that she did not long for her family, that she did not try to implement some scheme to take her home.

She had been born (or found, she supposed) in Portus Tarrus, but when she was six, her father had shifted the family to Rome for a handful of years after her grandmother had died. She had been a capricious child and one day had sneaked off alone to explore Rome. She remembered weaving through the legs of citizens and slaves, delighted with her freedom. There had been an instance of fright when someone who Calista still swore had been a slave trader caught her arm, but she had wrested her hand away by yanking her arm through the weak link of his thumb. Once she had escaped, she had begun narrating the story in her head as she later would to her friends in Portus Tarrus—never mind another five years would pass before her father would be appointed proconsul and she would see them again. At the end of the day she had returned to their villa, where her aunt Laetitia now lived, shocked when her parents had punished her by confining her to the house.

Today, too, Calista was eluding capture. Today, two things had happened that had set her already teetering world reeling. Calista had been jolted awake by a most unsettling dream. She could not recall the details of it or even the basic plot for that matter, but that dream…there had been something horrific about it, an aura that lingered in her mind.

At the farthest edge of the Agora, Calista peered up at the walls of water that contained the air for the inhabitants of Atlantis to breathe, trying to see past the bubbling swirls. She strained as if by looking through sun-strained waters she would catch sight of the family she had left behind. She felt herself slowly walking towards the wall of water and pressed herself against the jelly-like barrier. As the chilly water splashed against her face, she was unceremoniously pulled back.

“What in Tartarus are you doing?” Hadrian’s grey eyes were stormy with fury. “If you had broken the barrier, you would have drowned.”

“I see no reason to remain when it is evident that my return was a triviality: I am not the gods’ plaything, no matter what they may believe.” She was suddenly very aware of his large hand wrapped around her arm. She tried to free herself of his hold as she had with the Roman slave trader but he held fast.

Hadrian was calmer but he spoke firmly. “If you answer the Waveguide’s summons your questions might have been answered. I can appreciate a dislike of the Waveguide, but that is nothing to kill yourself over.”

“Don’t yell at Calista.” Appearing from nowhere, Claudius was still as golden and handsome as ever.

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