She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.

Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?

What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?

It was a woman--as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.

You rogues, do you want to live for ever?

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.