Blue scales. Inches from my feet. “Ah!” I scrambled away, slipping and sliding along the deck as my gaze raked over the monster, following spine to neck to head. A head skewered with a harpoon. “Highness.” Brielle and Jocelyn dropped to my side, both sobbing as they helped me to my knees. Brielle wrapped her arms around my shoulders, crying into my soaked shirt. “I thought you were dead.” “So did I,” I whispered, my breaths coming in ragged pants.
