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Here's the next chapter... by the way, I derived Maelbron's name from the Latin mal (-x,-us), which basically just means, well bad. Come on, what's not evil about cannabalism? :(
I know it kind of sucks that I get all these names from Latin instead of Cornish (Mer), but... well, meh. It's just different...
By the way, the lyrics of the song that starts up in Sapphy's point of view are from "You Don't Know Her Like I Do", by... argh. what's his name. Sorry I forgot the artist... :S. Anyways it's depressing but one of my favorites. I don't know if Sapphire would listen to country music at all, so this is just speculation.
DISCLAIMER: Sapphy~ "How big is Ingo anyways?" Faro~ "You must speak to Saldowr. Ingo is as it is..." Anyways it's too big for me to own.

Maelbron's POV~

It is decided. We will be heading north to better waters. Why not south?, my younger brother asked. I don't know, I said. That's just how it is...

We began our journey today. I've gone a considerable amount of distance both south and east, but never north. It was always said that further towards the top of the world, strange things happened. Our people were sometimes born with human blood... all the better. When things began going wrong, we managed to abduct a human; later we devoured his flesh, as customary. Hah! his eyes were as big as a whale when he saw us, but he would never live to tell the tale of what he saw.

Of course, it was very hard to obtain human meat, as most of their "divers" came with many numbers, and there were often other Air people on "boats" above the surface. They might be able to see us or something if we tried to attack the divers, even though they went far down. No use taking any chances. It was easier to leave.

And that's precisely what we're doing.

Faro's POV~

Okay. I just have to tell someone. This feeling has been setting uneasily inside me for a while, and I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks something- not sure what- is going to happen.

"Saldowr?"

"Yes, my son?"

Either he listens to me, or he thinks I'm crazy, which will probably mean I'm wrong. "Do you- do you have a feeling that something is going to happen?".

Saldowr raises his eyebrows. "A foreboding? My son, each one of us has different reasons for why we think something will happen, but it might be for the same reason..."
_

Sometimes things that people say don't make sense. Why is Saldowr being so... mysterious? I mean, there is obviously something going on... but what?

And there are other times that people do things that are a bit... obscured. Actions of which the meaning are not clear. For instance... Sapphire... she- Sometimes I catch her looking at me strangely; and even more often, when I try to open her thoughts, they are closed. Of course, she always tells me: "Stay out of my thoughts, Faro!", and acts completely annoying about it, but she rarely ever used to actually keep me out. The fact that her mental blockades are often accompanied by her strange glances (or non-glances), makes me think that there's something going on that she doesn't want me to know about... something that's never happened before. I, myself, hardly dare to guess what it is.

Most likely I will be wrong.

Sapphire's POV~

"Hey old friend, thanks for callin'.
It's good to know somebody cares.
And, yeah, she's gone, but I don't feel like talkin'.
It would be too much to bear
to hear somebody say: 'It stops hurtin'..."

Drat. It's raining, I'm by myself (except for Sadie, of course) because Mum's at work and Conor... well Conor is here, but he's asleep. Yes, still asleep at nearly noon. I have never met anyone that can stay in bed for so long. Not that there's anything to do...

"Or to hear somebody say:
'She ain't worth it.'
Cause you don't know her like I do!
You'll never understand.
You don't know what we've been through.
That girl's my best friend!..."

I start daydreaming, and wonder what it would have been like if I'd never known about Ingo. Strange topic, I know, especially after everything that's happened... I'd have never found out where Dad went, never have made the Crossing, or known about the Deep; never seen Ervys and all the cold fury towards human blood. I am deliberaltely depressing myself. I'd have never met the whale, or Saldowr, or known what it was like to ride dolphins, or surf currents, or- after feeling like the world was upside down- finally feeling at home; a part of things.

I'd have never met Faro.

Kind of hard to think of me a few years back... not knowing that what I thought was a fairy tale was actually real.

And more immediate than I ever imagined.

"And there's no way you're gonna help me,
She's the only one who cared.
No, you don't know how much I've got to lose.
You don't know her like I do..."

Due to the ginormous opening note, I will make it breif: next chapter will consist mostly of a cannibal's [you-know-who's] point of view, and Faro will be omitted from the chapter as well *sniff*. I'll make up for that, of course :D.
Oh, and please review! Since I'm not updating until I get... three more reviews.

P.S. Sapphy's POV was kind of to just make the chapter decently lengthy... well, I'm bummed out from swimming lessons and my summer Algebra-review thing :S.