Transforming High Tide Novels & Stories

"Enhancement emerges or it doesn't. Usually it emerges when the tide demands it." Over the following days, Selene learned to read Saltmere's tidal rhythms. Dawn tide was for fishing and gathering silent, focused work. Evening tide was for community, when everyone waded into the water to share news and resolve disputes. Night tide was for stories, when the oldest selkies and sea witches spoke of changes spanning centuries. It was during a night tide that Selene first witnessed their approach to enhancement. A storm was building on the horizon. She could feel it in the air pressure, see it in the way the supernatural residents began preparing. But they weren't fortifying buildings or moving in

"Since you've come, stay. This place has a nice view. It'll make a fitting burial ground for you. Rise!" With a single command, his words seemed to shape reality. The sea erupted in response, becoming impossibly violent as massive waves rose under Gideon's overwhelming energy. A towering wave, ten feet in diameter, surged over 320 feet high. This was a true tidal wave. Compared to this, the earlier waves conjured by the black-robed men were nothing more than child's play. But what truly drove the black-robed men to despair was the wave's transformation. It became a water dragon and coiled in the air. The sight was awe-inspiring and utterly stunning.

Kaden inquired, looking up at her. “The tide-hold is where they keep captives they don’t want to kill yet. It’s underground but built into the cliff face, and part of it floods at high tide. If we wait until the tide pulls back, we can slip in before it fills again,” “That gives us… maybe forty minutes before the water rises,” “Thirty-five if the moon pulls hard tonight,” She cocked her head. Kaden smirked a bit, despite the tension, “You always have to make it sound worse, don’t you?”

she nodded, "we do. The tunnel is roughly two and a half meters in diameter and roughly ninety-one meters long." I did the conversions in my head. Eight-ish feed wide and the length of a football field. I nodded. That wasn't too bad. "Does it all get submerged during high tide?" The female officer shook her head. "We're not for sure. Next high tide is today around ten hundred." I nodded. Smiled.

“we went to the river. But we did not play in the deep.” Hearing this suddenly Dylan thought of something... “deep.... deep waters...” “alpha king, I’m being very serious we need to get to work. We have so much piled up. You can’t afford to take months of break,” Dylan just stood there, frozen. “Low tide and high tide.. do you think it affects the whirlpool?..” “What tide? What are you talking about?” “There is this thing... during full moons the tide is high and what about during no moon days? What then? Do you think the tides will be low?”

“I didn’t choose that.” His companion shook his head slowly. “Neither did I.” They did not know who she was. They only knew she existed. Closer to Archview, the sea began to change. The tides no longer obeyed the calendar or the pull of the moon as the scholars measured it. Water surged too high in the morning, then fell away suddenly by nightfall. Fishing docks were left stranded at odd angles, boats rocking against ropes that should have been slack. Wells near the coast turned brackish overnight.

If she wants to go skinny dipping, I’m not going to stop her. She transforms back into Lewana and is gorgeously naked. Her soft white skin looks like silk and still shimmering in moonlight. I shift back to pull her into my arms as I kiss her. “Did you want to go swimming, Moonlight”. She smiles at me. “Not exactly. Do you know what the tidal force is”. I look at her puzzled. “No”. “The tidal force is what causes high and low tide. It's caused by the gravitational pull from the moon”

It was a beautiful sight. “Fine,” she said, leaning back slightly. “But if I drown, I’m haunting you.” “Deal,” I replied, holding onto her waist to keep her steady. The feel of her skin beneath my fingers was enough to drive me insane, but I pushed the thought aside and focused on her. Her laughter echoed around us as she tried to float, her movements awkward and unsure. I couldn’t help but laugh along with her, the sound of it ringing out over the waves. “See? Not so bad,” I said after a while, letting go slightly as she found her balance.

Then suddenly, he scooped me up and held me so tightly it felt like I might melt into him. "Yes. Yes, we are," he said in my ear, the laughter he couldn't hide bubbling through his voice. Outside, the city lights stretched out like a glittering galaxy. I used to think my life would just be surviving in this concrete jungle, struggling like a weed and quietly fading away. I never expected that with ten thousand dollars, I could buy a piece of the sea from a dark basement. From then on, my world had tides.