Michael
“Cape Point provided that in spades.An isthmus that projected from the continent, it was the south-westernmost point of Africa, and it divided the Atlantic ocean from the Indian ocean. The land raced upward from sea level like a scalded cat, its steep slopes creating precipitous and sheer drops from dizzying heights to the crashing surf below.Kreios swooped in along the tops of the waves as he approached, feeling the salt spray in his face as he went. Considerably far below the Cape Point Lighth...ouse, he alighted gently on the cluster of rocks that El had heaped up here as a boundary to the deep.“This far and no further,” he said to himself.He scrambled quickly up the rocks toward safer altitudes, reflecting on the sheer boldness he had employed to rescue Airel’s body from the water, what seemed like only yesterday. Too late. Still, he wondered. Why had I not drowned then? I should have been utterly swamped and useless. He wasn’t sure why, at this point, he had even attempted it.MoreLess
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