CHAPTER SEVEN
“Within the waters of the Western and Desert seas dwells a curious race of people known as Selkies. They are said to have been created by the Ocean Goddess, Clyphia. There have been many reports from shipwrecked sailors of the heroic acts of the Selkies dragging the drowning sailors to safety. It is said they are led by a mighty Selkie Queen both powerful in magic and beautiful to look upon.”
—Field Guide of Beaynid; Myrin Zantroc
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hiannon looked at her grandmother as she stood in a shaft of late summer sunlight. The old woman’s hair was twisted up into a loose bun, its color more grey than red now. Her plump cheeks and thin lips were scrunched into a smile as she was bent over a plant, harvesting its leaves for some medicine or another. Rhiannon could not help but smil
