The Current Between Us
Like she could dive back into the deep if she just held on tight enough.
The wind shifted. It carried voices now. Low, sharp, curious. The monsters with Legs. They were coming.
And only then did Beatrice feel it.
The wrongness. The absence.
She tried to curl her tail around Lily’s waist the way she always had when they slept curled together in the cave. But nothing answered. No muscle. No fin. No sweep of scales against sand.
Confused, she looked down.
Where her tail should have been, pale skin stretched to her hips. Two shapes, straight and still, ended in soft, pink things with ten small ridges each. Not fins. Not flukes.