Chapter 2
“Ouch, ouch.” Maggie’s legs throbbed their fatigue as she scrambled up the rocks by the Endless Sea. “Ouch.”
A fine layer of sand coated the rocks, blown up from the stretch of beach where the waves gently lapped at the toes of the residents who preferred to bask in the sun. But the red of evening had begun to take hold of the sky, clearing the beach and leaving Maggie in peace to climb the rocks to her home.
Cracks split the giant stones. Each gap as familiar as the streets she walked every day.
“Learn to fight, Miss Trent,” Maggie mumbled as she slid down the edge of an outcropping that hovered over the sea. “It’ll be useful, Miss Trent.” Blood trickled from the cut on her shoulder. “I’m not just being an a*s who wants to jab you with a sword, Miss Trent.”
A giant fluke br
