From The Deeps by Laura Greenwood & Skye MacKinnon

Author:Laura Greenwood & Skye MacKinnon [Greenwood, Laura & MacKinnon, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peryton Press
Published: 2017-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

11

Come, Muahwa said after the meal had finished. Macey sighed. She was hungry, grumpy and really didn’t want to have to deal with whatever it was Muahwa wanted. Regardless, she stood up to follow him, dimly aware of the three men doing the same. Good. That meant she wouldn’t have to face whatever this was alone. There was a certain kind of comfort in that.

No one said anything as they were taken into a small, but comfortable looking room. Like everywhere else, the roof was entirely see-through, allowing a rare glimpse into a world no one else could see. Unlike everywhere else, the wall to the outside was also unencumbered, and Macey drifted over towards it, entranced by the underwater world.

She’d never felt as small and unworldly as she did at that moment, looking into the great abyss before her, with the creatures she’d never swum with going about their lives. The bottom of the sea held wonders and dangers that she couldn’t even imagine, and hadn’t had a reason to until now. In fact, the home of the na fir ghorma only proved it more to her. She hadn’t even realised the other kelpies existed, so what else did the sea hold? Other than mermaids and selkies, she had no real clue. And she wasn’t in any rush to meet any of them given her Aunt Nessie’s stories about them.

Beautiful, isn’t it? Muahwa asked, stepping up beside her to look out into the ocean. A large shadow passed overhead at that moment, and Macey looked up in awe as what looked like a basking shark swum over head. The huge, but surprisingly graceful and gentle creature was something to behold. She couldn’t even work out whether she wanted to swim with it or not. It’d be an experience that was for sure. But at the same time, the sea was a lot bigger than the loch she’d grown up in.

“Yes,” she whispered.

It’s in trouble. He sounded resigned, and she once again marvelled at the emotions he could convey just by speaking in her head. Or maybe he could convey more because he was speaking in her head. She was just going to go with it. After the events of the past few days, that was really her only option. Especially if she wanted to stay sane

“In trouble from what?” she asked, conscious of the silence in the room which meant her men were likely listening intently too. Though given that Muahwa could speak directly into their heads anyway, it wouldn’t matter if there was an entire brass band playing the loudest fanfare they could muster, they’d still be able to hear.

The Sìth.

“But you father sai—”

My father is a fool. He thinks that the world revolves around the na fir ghorma, that we’re far more than the tiny drop in the ocean than we are.

Macey chewed on her bottom lip, not quite sure how she was meant to respond to that. She hadn’t been particularly expecting a Prince to speak so blatantly against his father.

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