The Love of the Sea

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In the quiet of a seaside cove Tara of the Twilight finds love—and a struggle for survival!

For two days and one night the frail craft had borne the girl Tara across the waters of the Inner Sea in the very teeth of the great storm. And for two days and one night the yelling winds and the hungry waves had barely given her a moment’s respite. By now she was shaking with exhaustion, as if all the vigor of her young body had been drained to the dregs by the ordeal.

When the little craft hit the reef and upended, hurling her into the wind-whipped waters, Tara had sunk like a stone. Still new to this world of Twilight, she had never mastered the skill of swimming. The pure instinct for survival took over, however: limbs flailed, kicked; lips clamped shut against the salt water. She rose to the surface, where heavy surf lugged her upon the shore and left her limp and weary to the bone.

But the receding surf sucked greedily about her legs and would draw her back down into the wet maw of the thundering waves. With the last bit of her strength, the War Maid dragged herself up the slope of wet sand until she was beyond the reach of the tides. Here a small stream of fresh water fed into the Inner Sea and from it she drank, rested briefly, then staggered to her feet and went lurching up into the trees and bushes to seek a haven from the whips of the wind and the lash of the rain.

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