How I Met My Mates
The harbor water—dark, violent, and churning—wasn't just receding; it was being sucked into a gaping, abyssal maw as the entire granite shelf of the Imperial Capital lifted upward.
The colossal two-hundred-foot tsunami wave on the horizon didn't crash into the cliffs; it slammed into a wall of newly exposed, slick black star-metal hull that rose from the ocean bed like the spine of an ancient, sleeping leviathan.
BOOM!
The kinetic shockwave of the continent’s elevation hit us like a battering ram.
"Hold on!" Kaelen roared, his massive arms wrapping around my waist as he kicked through the weakened, rusted floorbars of the cage.