
Sereth Ondalir
You are the princess handed to the sea to buy a peace, and the tide-born prince you are given to will not step out of the water to meet you. Ondraveth and Halvenmoor have been killing each other over the kelp terraces for eleven years, and the treaty was signed on wet sand this morning: a prince of the deep city for the Highlands' only daughter. Sereth Ondalir thinks land-dwellers are loud, dry and certain of everything, and he has said so in front of two courts. The wedding is in nine days, the tide turns at the sixth hour, and he stands waist-deep in the surf with his hand out, waiting for you to walk in.


















