Pirate Queen (Mermaid Academy Book 2) by Trevor Darby

Author:Trevor Darby [Darby, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stone Golem Publishing
Published: 2020-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

SERINA PICKED SAND out of her hair. “Where do you think we are?”

“Lost,” Krystal declared, flopping down onto the beach.

“Give me a minute.” Greyson was making shapes against the sky with his hands. “I should be able to figure our orientation from the position of the sun.” A moment, then he frowned. “Bugger it. It must be noon. It’s hard to tell which way the sun’s going. We’ll have to wait a couple hours.”

“Wait?” Cressida sniffled. “Here? We have no food, no water! We’ll starve!”

“A couple hours, he said.” Heavens help me, Serina thought, I’m going to knock Cressida on the head with a rock before the day is out.

Krystal propped herself up on her elbows. Her red hair was a storm-tangled mess pooling in the sand behind her. "Although food is worth mentioning. I’m famished.”

Serina's body was exhausted from a night of being battered, trying to escape the storm, but she pushed herself to her feet. "Well, then. Let's see what we can find." She waded back into the Serpentine Sea. It was calm today, its glassy surface unremembering of last night's frothy torment. The sun glittered high in a crystalline sky, painting sea and coast in a collage of vibrant colors.

“I’m tired of swimming,” Cressida moaned.

“Then you can nap on the beach,” Serina snapped. “None of us are forcing you to find food.” She dove into the water and shifted into her tail.

She had barely registered this underwater seascape in the wee hours of the morning when she had washed up on this strange shore with Krystal, Greyson, and Cressida. Driven by the storm all night, searching fruitlessly for their families and the refugees from Ambergris, they'd pushed themselves to exhaustion. It had been dark when the storm currents washed them up here. Now, with a few hours' sleep behind her and the light of day to help, she saw what sort of terrain they had swum over last night.

Sand. There was nothing but sand as far as she could see. It faded into the hazy blue distance, not a plant, not a fish in sight. Serina stretched her tail, feeling the muscles fatigued from yesterday’s trauma. She sighed as she hung in the water, passing it thoughtfully through her gills.

There was a splash, and Greyson joined her. His typical spiked hairstyle was all mussed, his green tailfins tattered from scraping over the rocks during yesterday’s storm. “Not very promising,” he muttered, staring out over the sand.

“Let’s look around a bit.”

Serina and Greyson struck out in different directions. They explored up and down the shoreline, then out until it got deep enough that the water began to grow dim.

Their search produced nothing fruitful, certainly nothing edible. The most Serina saw was a beleaguered cuttlefish camouflaging itself against the seafloor. She reunited with Greyson and swam back to shore. They found Krystal arguing with Cressida, trying to bully her into the water to look for food.

“It’s no use,” Serina announced, shifting into her legs and wading up onto the sand.

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