s a b a l .
She wasn’t really sure why she hadn’t immediately returned to the relative safety of Hyaline after leaving Maze, but she knew better than to delve into the recesses of her own mind. Scary place, that was. And it was true that she really hadn’t accomplished her original intention of actually leaving in the first place before she’d run into Maze too but. It all seemed less important now, all things considered.
She hadn’t returned to the river, but she didn’t go so deep into the trees that she couldn’t hear the water. Sabal didn’t like to venture far from the water, less so now that Mazikeen had delivered the wonderful news that there were monsters lurking in the dark. She’d yet to run across anything suspicious, but she was smart enough to know that she was a hundred times more vulnerable on land than she was in the water. And even though she might look like a pretty thing dressed up in scales, Sabal had a mouth full of kelpie teeth. And even though she walked the land as an equine, she wasn’t giving up her teeth when there were monsters in the dark.
The bioluminescent markings on her skin glowed softly, though the light never traveled quiet as far on land as it did beneath the surface. Still, she hadn’t realized just how lucky she’d been to inherit this particular ability until recently. The glowing was a trait seen more in her nereid bloodline than the kelpie, since kelpies were supposed to be ferocious or whatever.
She felt paranoid standing here at the dark, ready to jump out of her skin at the first sign of movement. She forced herself to pull in a deep breath in an attempt to relax. Which was saying a lot given that she was generally a sort of anxious creature but, here we are. Needless to say, the movement she catches out of the corner of her eye has her whirling – with her ears pinned flat against her head and her teeth bared.
“Show yourself!” she demands, hoping that whatever it is lurking in the trees doesn’t hear the tiny waver in her voice.
See? Kelpies were so fierce.
Umm.
can’t stop staring at those ocean eyes. |
