Sneak Peak

Prologue – Wyn 

The screams are hard to hear underwater.

The blurred forms above the surface are moving all around her.

What have I done?

My family, my people, my world. Risked I them all. 

But she’d been drowning. No one else saw. Had I to save her. But the repercussions. My hands clench my hair. She has the secret. Will she tell? 

Uncertainty stills my voice. How to speak with her? Will she want to speak with me? Can she help me? 

My appetite flags with every passing week and my thoughts slow. A hand goes to my shrinking stomach. The once great strength and speed are faltering. Hate I the dulled colour of my scales. This horrifying and tainted water is a prison. The lack of salt inevitably leaves its mark. The poisonous chemicals attack, relentless. A slow death is torturous. There is no opportunity for release; escape from this severe, unforgiving confinement is impossible. They have trapped me well. They are killing me. 

The water swirls around me in the deepest corner of the pool. Her feet are pulled up through the water and she is gone.

My energy will soon be gone, can she provide escape? Or will she expose me?

If don’t I escape, death will come as surely as the moon shapes the tides. But if am I exposed, death might be preferable.

Flick I my tail back and forth. Will not I accept this is the way the stones have been cast. My choice may risk my whole world, all of Lasera. But refuse I to let this be the end. Maybe she will help, maybe she will betray me to the humans. Regardless, death must be held at bay. There is no other option.