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never seen him so pale. I spotted a vibrant red shimmering in the far distance. Nixie was perched on the ledge of a cliff several peaks to the right of Trident Rock. She hadn’t deserted me after all.
    My tail felt ice-cold beneath the water, probably because all my blood was being used to fuel the supersonic beating of my heart. I stared up at the towering pillars of rock. I tried swallowing, but my mouth was bone-dry. “You’re sure we’re doing this?”
    Treygan squeezed my hand. Rownan gave one firm nod. I took a deep breath, and we swam into a foreboding mist, entering the shadow between two of the spears.
    A burning jolt shot through me. We were thrown backward by a curtain of electricity. The shock was so powerful that we were launched up out of the water. I landed in a hard belly flop that stung the whole front of my body. All of my hair was standing on end. My skin felt like a crackling fire.
    “What the hell was that?” Rownan gasped.
    Treygan shook his head as if trying to shake off the pain. “It felt like lightning hit us.”
    I searched the sky to see if Nixie had created an electrical storm to stop us, but saw nothing except spires of black rock silently mocking us.
    Rownan swam forward again, only to be thrown back even harder. His body flew in an arc as if he had been punched with a powerful uppercut from an invisible giant. He skidded across the water. He was much more shaken up by the second jolt.
    Nixie flew toward us.
    “Stay right here,” I told Treygan. “And don’t let him try again until I get back. We don’t need him shocking himself to death.”
    I flew up into the sky to meet Nixie.
    “I thought this would be one of the most depressing moments of my life,” Nixie said, grinning. She was biting her lip so hard I couldn’t tell if it was bleeding or just her natural shade of crimson. “But Rownan getting trounced a second time was pure bliss.”
    “We couldn’t cross. Do you have any idea why?” 
    Nixie shrugged. “No clue.”
    Sage curved forward, her diamond-like eyes blinking at me as her scales warmed against my skin. Sea monster worlds. Part human.
    My wings drooped as I looked over my shoulder at Treygan and Rownan waiting below. I muttered to myself as the truth hit me. “It’s a gate between two sea monster worlds. The three of us are all part human.”
    “What?” Nixie asked.
    Of course. I swooped down to Treygan and Rownan. “We can’t pass through the gateway because we all have human blood in us. Only pure-blooded sea monsters can pass through it.”
    “Ohhhh,” Nixie cooed behind me.
    “No! No way!” Rownan punched the water while yelling like a maniac. Treygan and I let him throw his fit. He deserved to lose control. I would have too if someone had told me there was no way to save Treygan from a damned world.
    I looked at Treygan and tried to imagine it. What if he was in Harte and I couldn’t get to him? Technically, we had only been together for weeks, but our bond was already so strong. Rownan and Vienna had years together before they were separated. How does someone ever accept that they have to give up on reuniting with their soul mate?
    Rownan finally stopped punching and yelling. He clutched his face in his hands. “This can’t be happening.”
    Treygan and I kept silent. Nothing we could say would help. My heart broke for Rownan, but I felt heinous because a big part of me was relieved that we couldn’t enter Harte. If we couldn’t enter, we couldn’t not come back.
    “I’ll kill him.” Rownan dove beneath the water. His tail shot away from us faster than I had ever seen him swim.
    “Where is he going?” I asked Treygan. “Who is he going to kill?”
    Treygan shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Our father.”

The long swim hadn’t calmed me down at all. Treygan caught up to me and stayed by my side the whole way. He only attempted to stop me once.
    I scrambled up the ladder to the pier. Yara was already standing there,