When Vival rescued young Airam from her island prison, he thought getting her home would be easy. Suddenly he found himself in the middle of a tempermental ocean keeping company with a bad-tempered teenager, a split-personality shapechanger, and an incredibly talkative sword, all while trying to follow the directions of a mysterious spirit named Aunt Serme. None of this was the problem, of course. The problem was that the girl he was rescuing didn’t want to be rescued!
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