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Fathoms Above
THE SUN hung high and hot above the whitewashed, red-roofed homes
nestled in the kingdom of Vellona’s Cloud Break Bay. Warm winds
whipped through the cobblestone streets and canals, and voices called out
across the rippling waves. The soft notes of a song, as cheerful as it was
distant, drifted through the piers. Eric turned his ear toward the tune and
shuffled his feet back in time with it. A sword sliced through the air where
he’d stood.
“Too slow!” Eric shouted, sweeping one leg back and bowing.
The crowd hollered. The dock above them rattled, salt peppering down
like snow. Eric dunked his stinging hands into the low tide. Across from
him, Gabriella, his childhood friend and the only person who regularly
outmatched him, paced along the edges of the fighting ring, and her gaze
flicked from his hands to his face. She grinned, brown skin gleaming with
sweat and seawater. Seaweed clung to her sword.
These weekly bouts had been small at first, an easy way to help train
folks who might otherwise never see a sword. They had only started using
live blades this week. Eric had gathered his friends into the little nook on
the beach beneath the last dock and strung up an old canvas sheet between
the posts to hide them away from curious eyes. It hadn’t worked, and these
last three months had seen their numbers swell. This little fighting ring
beneath the docks was all Eric could do to make up for the ever-present fear
of pirates that infused Vellona these days with more towns being raided and
razed every week.
“You’re too cocky,” Gabriella said and shoved her damp sleeves up to
her elbows. “If I were a pirate, you’d be dead.”
Gabriella was the only one here who’d lived through a pirate raid. The
sparring had been fun at first, but now there was too sharp an edge to it.
“If you were a pirate, we’d have bigger problems than—”
She struck out and nicked his arm. He reared back.
“You always give in to the urge to chat,” said Gabriella, lunging for
him. “Real fights aren’t fairy tales. No one will stop so you can
monologue.”
“Then stop me.” He met her in the middle, both of his knives blocking
the thrust, and locked them together at the center of the ring. “And don’t
worry about my breaking.”
“Never.” She grinned. “Princeling.”
Eric laughed. This was why he liked the morning fights. These bouts
were a good way to relax and find out what people needed help with before
heading to work. Would these spars fix all of Vellona’s problems? Never.
Would they help a few survive? Maybe. Did they make Eric feel like part of
the crowd, just another soul living in the bay instead of a prince always held
at arm’s length? Absolutely.
“Every time you call me that,” he said, “I’ll hit harder.”
“I’m quivering,” she said, and fluttered her off hand over her heart.
“Come prove it.”
Eric reversed his grip on his knives. He feinted for her left, her sword
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