St Joseph Sound Tides Novels & Stories

Burble! Flowing water-like sounds rang in Dave’s house, and the sound was getting louder. Later, it sounded like an incoming water wave and a surge of the tide. “What is that sound?” “Is there a tide coming? There’s a rising tide in Raze City?” Both Hermione and Ynes looked astonished as they could not figure out where the sound came from. Then, they could even sense a kind of coercion between heaven and earth at close range, as if they were in the center of a tsunami with millions of continuous tidal waves pressing on them. It suffocated them and almost crushed all the bones in their bodies.

I said laughing and Nikolay chuckled kissing my cheek. “No, your body is going to adjust and the tide is just coming up” Nikolay teased and I laughed, I knew that the tide was rising but that meant waves and I was not planning on being thrown out of the water to go back inside and get kicked out by some huge wave. That seemed to be Nikolay’s plan at the moment and it was something that I loved doing if we were speaking on normal, DAY LIGHT states. But it was night and I wouldn’t be able to see the rising wave. Okay, I would but it wouldn’t be as clear as it is during the day, I’d need to rely on HEARING the wave’s sound to hear and predict the impact.

Pointing to the wave breaks along the beach visible in the distance beyond the docks, he cries excitedly, "The tide!" Having spent the entirety of my life in these parts and surrounded by these lakes, I know all too well tides don't stir in land locked seas. The waves come from the wind and storm pressure. I clutch Juliet hard against me, locking my fist around the ship's railing as beneath us, the Isle Royale's slow rolling with the water becomes noticeable.

Joseph felt the wind knocked out of him as he heard the whistle followed by the loudest sound he's ever heard in all his 16 years under the Tau Ceti sun. A whiz and BOOM. Whiz and BOOM. Explosion after explosion came pummeling down onto them. An unending barrage of terrifying heat and sound and fireball crashed all around them. Joseph covered his face as clods of disturbed earth pelted and rained down on him. His screams were drowned out by the loud thunders. It went on forever. Until it didn't. Then it stopped. He heard nothing afterwards except the constant ringing in his ear.

I replied, leaning into him for a brief moment of stolen peace. ​Leo cleared his throat, looking slightly uncomfortable but determined to keep us on schedule. He was tapping a glass rod against a tuning fork, the sound biting and sharp. “The Jade Fleet is less than twenty-four hours from the outer islands. If we want to be ghosts by the time they arrive, we have to start the transition now. The frequency needs time to settle, to wrap itself around the cliffs like a fog. If we wait until they are in the harbor, the ripple will be too obvious. They will see the distortion.”