The Deepest Ocean (Eden Series) by Marian Perera

Author:Marian Perera [Perera, Marian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

The storm had blown itself out and Julean heard them searching.

As soon as he had gained the deck of Bowhead, he had run across it to the gunwale. The galley rolled like a die on a gaming table, tossed by first one wind and then another. Even over the screams of the winds, he heard masts creak and men shout in terrified voices, but in the dark no one saw him as he climbed over the gunwale, clutching the wet rail tightly until he could lower himself into a rowboat lashed to the galley’s side.

Feeling a little safer, he searched the boat and found a bailer to collect a few mouthfuls of rainwater. Waves flung themselves at the galley like giants’ hands reaching up out of the ocean to grab the vessel, and he wondered how the Tureans managed to drink salt and live. It would have made an interesting research project—for a man who still had a fascination with medical discoveries, for a man who had a laboratory on Denalay and the funds to buy equipment and the approval of the scientific community.

He knew just how much he had lost—or given up or thrown away, he was forced to admit—along with Maree and their child, but for the first time he wondered how she would have felt about it. She had been proud of him, but he hadn’t done a great deal to be proud of in the past five years.

No, there was no point in idle speculation. When he found her, she could say anything she liked and he’d accept it gladly, if only he could have her back.

He made himself as comfortable as possible on the boat, which was not comfortable at all but infinitely safer than being belowdecks. Gradually the storm blew itself out. The waves sank down. The sky grumbled, fell silent and grew light in the east. They were sailing into the sunrise as the search began.

Julean knew better than to underestimate the Tureans again. It was only a matter of time before they looked over the side. He could cut away the ropes binding the boat, but he had no intention of rowing off alone through the Iron Ocean.

Ropes. That was an idea.

Voices came closer to the gunwale, and he heard what they said even over the flap of rainsodden canvas and shouted commands. “There’s bad luck and there’s ill fate and which one d’you think we got? First Rorqual sinks, then there’s a Deen on board and an albatross…” The words trailed off uneasily.

“I heard he killed Ranost,” another Turean replied. An unpleasant metallic snick-snick sounded when he moved, and Julean had no wish ever to find out what made that noise, but from the voices he knew they stood at the same point he had climbed over. Wood creaked as they bent over the gunwale to look at the rowboat.

No, I haven’t left anything there. Just after the search began, he had tied himself beneath the boat, his back to its

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