MY HEART POUNDED AS the shadow drew closer. The last time I’d driven the creature away, I’d inadvertently sent it straight for Luca, searching for easier prey. That couldn’t be an option for me now. I’d been creating all kinds of new problems with my solutions to the old ones up to this point, but one way or another, this needed to be it.
Whatever I did, it had to be enough to get rid of the leokampoi entirely. Which meant my best bet was to scare it. Send it fleeing from here, tapping into its survival instincts instead of its predatory ones.
To accomplish that, I needed something sudden and loud.
My eyes drifted to the motor. Weren’t motorboats supposed to be dangerous to aquatic life or something? Would the sound be capable of frightening a leokampoi away?
I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t st
