Chapter Twenty
Shifting seemed to be easier down here. It still burned like fire but it was more bearable when she could swim out into the Loch and visit all the places she'd first explored as a child.
Rónán clicked at her in his odd seal tongue. She had no idea what he was actually saying, but she somehow knew that he wanted to go off to the left and explore over there. She smiled inwardly, loving that he wanted to discover her home like that. It probably came across as more of toothy uncomfortable grimace in her kelpie form. The horse's nose she had wasn't really made for smiling. It was probably one of the many reasons kelpies had become so feared. They didn't exactly look friendly.
Plants on the bottom of the Loch drifted back and forth as they swam past and a few small fish wove th
