Song of the Deep by Brian Hastings

Author:Brian Hastings [Hastings, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I close my eyes as tightly as I can. Tears roll down my cheeks. I don’t want pretty dresses or paints. All I want is to open my eyes and see my father again.

My eyes open slowly. I’m alone in the darkness.

I tuck the journal under my arm and swim back out of the boat and through my submarine’s hatch. My father didn’t give up. He was trying to reach the surface. I look at the darkness of the water above me. How far is it to the surface? Could he have made it?

Swish peers in at me through the window. He knows I’m sad and doesn’t know what to do.

“It’s okay, Swish. We’re not giving up. We’re going to find him.” I put my hand up to the window. He rubs his head against the glass next to my hand.

My eyes refocus toward the distance as an enormous silhouette glides over the jagged wreckage. Long flowing tentacles trail behind the fast-moving shadow. The searchlights of the Fomori sentinels turn and follow the shadow eastward out of the reef.

Could that be the creature that is sinking the ships? The sentinels followed it, but they didn’t attack. Maybe they are tracking it. Or maybe it’s the other way around—is it possible that creature is actually the one controlling the sentinels?

A voice from behind me startles me out of my musings.

“I see you’ve made a friend.” The merrow maiden swims up to my window and strokes Swish’s head. He wiggles his tail happily. She turns back toward me. “Did you find your father’s boat?”

“Yes, but he’s gone.”

“Good,” she says. When she sees the hurt look on my face, she adds, “There wouldn’t have been enough air for him to survive. If he’s not in the boat, then there’s hope that he’s okay.”

“Oh,” I say, embarrassed that I misunderstood her intent. “But how do I find him now?”

“There is a strong current that runs through the reef. It was once used by the early Fomori explorers. It passes directly above us. If your father tried to make it to the surface, he may have been caught in it.”

“Where does it lead?”

“Somewhere I cannot go, I’m afraid.” I think this over, uneasy at the thought of using a Fomori pathway alone. “Follow me and I’ll show you the current,” says the merrow as she swims up above the wreckage.

“Do you know what sunk these ships?” I ask. She doesn’t seem to hear me. Or maybe that’s a conversation we don’t have time for right now.

“Here is the current,” she says, pointing to a powerful flow of water that courses, nearly invisibly, through the wreckage of the reef. “You should hurry. I will tell you all you want to know the next time we meet.”

I see the light of a Fomori sentinel approaching us. I hesitate. If it sees me enter the current it will be able to follow me, and I may have no way to escape. But the merrow is already one step ahead of me.

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