"As did I," Tuath said.
They looked around them. Behind, where the water spout had been, there was now only the hard line of the horizon. The sun had disappeared, so they were in brightness without a source. In front, there was a stretch of clear water and then an area of turbulence where the sea moved in a great circle, round and round and round.
"The Corryvreckan!" Tuath said, with something like awe. "I have heard the old mariners speak of it but never thought to see it. It is a great whirlpool that eats ships and men."
Melcorka took a deep breath and viewed the horror that now lay before them. "I would much prefer a flesh and blood monster," she said. "I can fight a monster, but how can we fight that?"
In a direct mirror-image to the cloud through which they had passed, the sea was
