Nightjack
“They were still shouting in Spanish on the street.Atop the sheet kneeled the blue woman.Her gills eased open as she breathed, arching above him on the bed, watching him. As she shifted her chain mail dress jangled, crusted with jewels, seashells, and coral. She drew fiery sigils and spells in the air. Arcane symbols and covenants in a sea language that had been chiseled into rock at the bottom of the deepest trenches and abysses of the ocean.Her black and lidless eyes, like a shark’s, somehow r...etained a great humanity. He sensed her sorrow.Princess Eirrin, ten thousand-year-old sorceress and heir to the Atlantean throne, one of Pia’s alternates.“You awaken to this world once more,” she said in a voice strong enough to be heard even under the frothing waves of the Aegean. She used to show him treasures taken from centuries-old galleon shipwrecks: gems, Roman coins, doubloons, riches from the fallen empires which she used to decorate her throne floor.Pace said, “Hello Princess, it’s been a while.”Beside her sat a panting pug which she stroked with one webbed hand.MoreLess
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