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Before I could think on it further, I was being pulled from the sea, Adrian’s arm wrapped around my waist, tail powerfully pushing us both back towards the shore.

As we breached the beach, I fell to my hands and knees, coughing and sputtering to catch my breath.

“Are you OK?” he asked, turning me towards him.

“Yeah I’m—” I stopped, both of us watching the bright light retreating from my necklace. Rewinding the light shot out like a bolt. It looked like it came from another point, further out in the water, that was shot straight up.

As soon as the light was reeled all the way back, the large light point in the distance disappeared, as if it was never there.

If Adrian hadn’t been here, I would have assumed I just made the whole thing up, but it was clear as the moons.

“What the fuck was that?” he asked.

We stared at each other dumbly, each of us trying to figure out what we just witnessed. I had no clue, but this was the first time I’d seen it do… anything.

“I think we need to go talk to Bramwell,” he said.

“I think you might be right.”

Whatever was going on, it was way out of my depth.

Chapter 31

Adrian

We both rushed back to the ship, looking like a pair of wet dogs. We were sure to avoid the broken plank that had sank her into the water in the first place.

Sage seemed a bit shook up, but more so focused on getting to Bramwell. Maybe that was for the best.

One second, she had been next to me, the next her scream pierced the air, and she had been gone.

My heart had sunk to my fucking throat when I realized she’d been plunged under the deck. There was no telling if she hit a beam on the way down and injured herself, or if there were rocks hiding under there.

I didn’t think, just slithered to the edge between two of the ships and launched myself off.

When I was in the water, it was so fucking dark I was worried I’d never find her, until I realized a bright, blue light was coming right from where she was. In the moment it hadn’t occurred to me what had happened, just that it was the perfect beacon to find her.

I swam quickly, pulling her out and moving us to the shore, which is when the light I saw actually clicked.

I had no idea what the fuck was going on. I’d never seen something on a magnitude like that, and I’d seen my fair share of magic. This had to be something… ancient. No regular magestone could magnify light at least ten nautical miles out.

I could hear chatter from my crew as we went, talking about the strange light, but nobody had any idea what it was, at least not from the whispers I picked up while walking.

Sage was carefully tucked under my arm. I felt like I couldn’t even let her go at this rate. Her entire body shook, and I couldn’t tell if it was from the events or from whatever happened.

Probably both.

Bramwell wasn’t in the war room studying, but I found him in his room just down the hall from mine. I banged on the door, more as a warning than an ask, and threw it open. He was initially irritated, but when he realized our state, had the decency to look shocked instead.

“What happened to the two of you?” he asked.

“We fell in the ocean,” Sage said.

“That’s not why we’re here though,” I told him. “It’s what happened after.”

I explained to Bramwell what happened. He listened intently, waiting for me to finish before interjecting.

“So, what you’re saying,” he started, “is that when Sage fell into the ocean, a beam of light shot from her necklace to a random point that also shot a beam straight up?”