Alfiabalas opened his mouth to ask more. “But what—”
Lord Telariras raised his own hand to forestall him. “We believe the creature was once one of the Sea Folk.”
“The Sea Folk?” Iarion blurted, his strange eyes goggling.
Alfiabalas could understand his surprise. The Sea Folk had become the stuff of legend. Half-elf, half-fish creatures, they had vanished long ago during the destruction of Ralvaniar—the elves’ original home island to the east. Even though the Sea Elves had never truly given up the search for them during the millennia that followed, no sign of them had ever been found.
Lord Telariras nodded. “It would explain the creature’s coloring. Raslynia believes it was separated from the rest of its kind during the cataclysm and got caught up in the maelstrom.”
Alfiabalas bit his
