45As Cryssa stood on the beach of Shark Island, she was filled with mixed emotions.
The battle was over. The Sylva and the Army of the Sea had triumphed over the Sharkites. Cryssa and Seek had survived and were free to go home.
Cryssa was happy about all that...but happiness wasn't the only thing she felt. All around her, Sylva and Sharkites lay wounded or dying or dead in the sand. The bodies of dead sea creatures continued to wash ashore...Kee and sharks and Orga and seals and swordfish killed in the fight.
There were so many hurt, so many dead. Too many.
It would be easy to say that the Sharkites had brought it on themselves and deserved what had happened to them...but Cryssa couldn't so easily condemn them. She knew that they had done what they had done out of desperation, be
