After the Sacred Whale Betrayed Me, I Contracted Poseidon novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Cronstedt House
"No," said Ilsa.
She said it as she had said it on this same floor, with the same three hundred people watching, and a thousand more.
Caldrion's face did not change.
But the fingers of his left hand began to stretch.
They spread wide and flat, slow, the way they had before the knife.
She stepped aside before he moved.
His other hand came out of his coat with a shard of grey hide, sharp as a gutting blade.
It passed through the air where her ribs had been.
Oren caught his wrist.
He did it without effort, almost gently.
"You are a very young beast," Oren said.
"You have said you are cold."
"Be cold."
He spoke one word in a language older than Saltmarch.
The whole sea in the great pool stood up behind him.
The tide at its peak rose with it, up through the drains and the floor.
Soon the Hall was ringed with a standing wall of green water.
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