"To become the sea is to remember what it is to be wild, to be infinite, to be free."
The Pearl Castle faded behind me, swallowed by the horizon and wrapped in the hush of downlight. I stood at the cliff's edge for a breathless moment, letting the sea wind whip through my hair, my cloak fluttering like a broken wing. The bond between Caelan and me still hummed warmly beneath my skin, a tether I would never sever. But now I had to become something else and something older.
I closed my eyes. "Let the tide take me," I whispered.
