The Eagle Mountains:
Departure Day:
Saying goodbye to Tidehome took most of the morning.
The mer-younglings who had spent three months watching the snakelings in fascinated delight showed up en masse at the settlement's edge, pressing forward for last looks. Siddy, naturally, performed for the audience—rearing up and spreading his iridescent scales in a display that sent the younger mer-children into delighted chaos.
"He's going to be insufferable once he realizes how much attention that gets him," Alex muttered.
"He already knows," Zale said, watching his nephew-equivalents scramble over each other to get closer. "He's been practicing."
Mira appeared with a traveling pack that clinked with small bottles and dried sea herbs.
