Chapter 132

Enough of this, I thought to myself as I woke up sweating and nervous again.

I took deep controlled breaths. There was no need to fear. I wasn’t in the mountains, no one was chasing me. Instead, I thought about the day Master Damien and his brothers took me to the canal.

We were all there again. The men seemed confused to find themselves on the bobbing wooden platform. I looked up at them and for some reason, I’d left them dressed and with their weapons on. This was a dream, I thought to myself, I’d prefer them naked.

The men’s clothing dissolved and they sat down watching me.

“Swim with me, Masters?” I asked the men in my dream. “Show me fun things like you did before.”

Master Damien bounded into the water and I followed him in. I loved to be in the ocean.

They took me deeper than I had gone that day. Master Kein showed me the bottom of the canal and the things that lived there. He spoke underwater and told me they could swim much deeper than I c