High Tides (Part One of the 'Changing Tides' Series)

by SapphireOceans

It's more than a year on from the events of the Crossing of Ingo, and there have been some big changes in Sapphire's life. But with a new sibling on the way, Conor's growing distance from the world of the Mer, Ervy's old allies on the move and Sapphy's confusing new feelings for Faro, still more changes are yet to come. It looks like Sapphire's two worlds may be set to collide…

22. Epilogue

I could have left it there, but I wanted to set the scene for the sequel, and my dad suggested that I wrote an epilogue. So this is it! I hope you enjoy! :D

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Epilogue

The night is dark and stormy; outside the cottage, the wind is howling like a lonely wild wolf, with enough sadness to break your heart. I can hear the waves thrashing against the sand, the gale whipping them into a wild frenzy of white horses, their manes of foam and spray dancing in the wind. Rain pelts my window, like the pebbles a lover might throw to announce their presence, but the storm is no friend of mine and the raindrops are more like bullets than harmless flecks of gravel. They pound harder and harder, until I'm afraid that the glass might smash. I stand at the window neither asleep or awake, but in a state in between, my hand resting lightly on the wooden sill. There is something out there in the dark, something lonely and lost. Something hurting. Something angry. Something that is neither Moryow nor Norvys, but something twisted and betwixt. Even in my dreamlike state I shudder. The wailing of the wind grows louder and louder, as does the roaring of the sea, roaring a warning.

Danger. Danger.

I press one hand up against the glass. A flash of lightning burns through the air, illuminating the world outside for one brief moment and I think I see someone else's hand pressing back against mine on the other side of the window.

Saaaaaaphiiiire…

The voice calls in my head once more, the voice that isn't Moryow.

Saaaaaaphiiiire…

It coils and hisses around my mind like an angry snake, filled with white hot lightning rage.

And although I don't know who's out there, what's out there I do know what it wants.

Revenge.