40Slowly, Cryssa and Seek swam out into the cove. Between them and the open sea, the battle raged in a ragged, roiling line of bodies and foam.
From the hilltop, Cryssa had thought that this area had looked like the least crowded and easiest to get through. From water level, though, she had an entirely different point of view. Whichever direction she looked, to the right or to the left, the battle line seemed like an impassable curtain of destruction.
Shark Men on the backs of sharks crossed swords and spears with Sylva warriors riding armored Kee knights. Squid wrapped writhing tentacles around Shark Men and hoisted them from their steeds. Packs of Orga battled packs of sharks, thrashing and twisting and bolting in frenzied blurs of black and white and gray. A humpback whale surge
