Alexis Ke ~ Romantica Author ~ |
| YOUNG AND RESTLESS |
“Did I not tell you to be quiet!!!” Neptune’s voice vibrated through the lyceum.
Many times before when he’d been this angry he’d stomped and caused earthquakes that sent
Tsunamis across the land.
“But--”
“Silence!”
A wave pushed Zion down into a bow.
“You were warned not once, but twice. Why do you defy me?”
Zion opened his mouth, closed it and lowered his head when Neptune raised his trident.
“I will only tell you this once more.” Neptune’s tail waved and the water parted before his eyes. “We
do not belong on the land. It is not that we can’t go there, it has been done with proportional
disasters. Your place is here. Do not, and I mean, do not question my authority again. You will not
like my wrath.”
Zion bowed his head in submission, turned and swam to the far side of the sea to brood. No one
understood him. No one cared about the future. Only Zion had the vision of walking among the
land lovers. Only Zion had the dreams to finding the secrets his people had hidden from them for
so many years. And by golly, he was going to find out.
*
“Wrath in deed. How dare he tell me what I can and can’t do?” The words were out of his mouth
before he could stop them.
Immediately his head began to spin. The pressure almost unbearable. It was like the time he swam
to the shore and watched the others as they played on the beach. He’d stayed topside too long.
Had become water hungry. But why was it happening now. He was nowhere near the white sandy
beaches he longed to walk on. Water surrounded him. The dizziness flooded his sensations,
making him alarmed.
“I must get help.” His words were garbled, even to him. Muffled. His eyes fluttered, went black and
then closed before he could summon help. . .
