After the Sacred Whale Betrayed Me, I Contracted Poseidon novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Whole
"Then go, if you want to," Ilsa said.
She said it on the Hall steps, in the dark, with her wrist bare.
"I mean it, Oren."
"You don't need me, and you don't owe me."
"The sea is yours, and so is the door."
He looked at her for a long time.
The whole harbor lay below them with its lanterns lit, and the tide breathed against the stone.
"I have been the Sea Emperor for four thousand years," he said.
"I have had every power a creature can have."
"I have never once had a reason to stay anywhere."
He took her left hand and turned it over.
"I am choosing one."
"Come with me."
He led her down the steps and along the quay to the end of the pier.
The water at the bottom stair lay flat and black and starred with reflected light.
He stepped onto it.
It held him, as it had held her at the barge, but now it rose to meet his foot.
He held out his arm.
"Midsummer night is the shortest of the year," he said.
"I would like to spend it on the water."
She took off her boots and stepped out after him.
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