All Chapters of Ultramarine: Chapter 21 - Chapter 27

A mermaid stole the crew’s footage. That was what Mom, Lachlan, and Harris believed had happened when they abandoned the boat to look for me. 

“There are two factions of our kind,” Ember said. “There used to be only one, but things happened that divided us into two.”We were sitting on my roughly made bed across each other. Every single window inside the caravan was open, allowing a gentle breeze through. 

It wasn’t until lunchtime that Ember left and I rushed to the cottage’s kitchen. I found Mom wearing an apron with a wooden spoon in hand, taste testing a thick, brown sauce. “Mom, are you...okay?” I asked, walking up beside her to glance into the large two pots on the stove. It was spaghetti bolognaise. 

Kayn wasn’t looking at me. I explained to him about what Ember had told me, but he appeared to be somewhere far away—at some unreachable place only he could go. “Did you even hear what I said?”

Monday snuck in with a breezy, cloudless sky—that by an hour later as I got into Bowmore, turned into the center of a vicious storm.  The silver sky tumbled in rushed, radiating ripples, and spat out water like it was angry at the world beneath it. 

Six weeks passed without anything crazy happening. No more Kayn harassing me over the fact that I needed to leave. He stayed out of my way for the most part, almost as if he was purposely avoiding me. Other than Belinda glaring me into the afterlife—things were unusually normal. 

“Mom, so how long will you be out?” I leaned on the side of the new cabin cruiser. This one was twice the previous one’s size and had equipment set out on the deck that I’ve never seen before. “We should be back by tomorrow evening,” she responded. “Don’t worry. I’ve already asked A