The Pack's Emissary
in red and white in the window, and a little jetty with row boats bobbing in the waves as the ferry made its slow journey from one side to the other.
It was a beautiful morning, and the fish were jumping in the water, little slivers of silver leaving behind ever-spreading ripples. It all looked so normal, Lyric thought watching the wind stir the little star-flowered grasses, that she almost doubted the taint that she knew the water held that had been the final straw for the Mer. And then a bird swooped, skimming the water surface in pursuit of the fish below, and exploded into a ball of feathers and blood as the fish that it sought fought back.
For a moment, fish and bird battled, and then t
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