Why wasn’t it working? He should have come to me already. I lay my hands flat again, ready to say the damn spell as many times as it took when bubbles began to rise near the middle of the lake. A moment later, a figure emerged from the water. “Odiane!” I cried out in utter shock. The female Selkie I had left as protector of my newborn son glided toward me in the water. In her arms was a tiny child, its fingers waving in the air. “I had started to wonder if you were coming back at all. I was days from sending out a search party.” She smiled broadly at me, but I only had eyes for the tiny bundle in her arms. He was alive. Without the cauldron. I was utterly dumbfounded and overwhelmed by emotion. My mouth hung gaping open, tears pooling in my unblinking eyes. “I’m not sure what you did, but
