Chapter 3
Perhaps it was because Hymir was more familiar with giants and gods than humans that it hadn’t occurred to him that tossing an old man overboard into freezing, unforgiving waters was a bad idea. The sea closed in over David’s head as his arms and legs wore out after a few seconds of frantic paddling, and the soundless, opaque blueness enveloped him.
He remembered the time that he had tried to go through the Curtain from the hidden world of legends back into his own world: he had left the island that the Sirens called home, into the rolling thunderclouds of the Curtain, and then plummeted into bleak darkness as an unknown ocean rose around him before waking up in Japan. He prayed that this was like that time. This had to be the entryway into one of the Curtain’s many openings,
