Lunamare by Pepper Winters EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Aslan
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(Moon in Latin: Luna)
I’D NEVER BEEN SO SCARED OF THE sky before.
Never thought clouds could reach down and smother me. Never believed
rain could fall fast enough to drown me. Never thought thunder could reach
inside my chest and stop my terrified heart with its fury.
BOOM!
My mother screamed. My sister screamed. My cousin screamed.
But my father just kept holding on to all of us. Draped over us the best he
could as the boat tossed side to side, desperately trying to cast us out of it.
Lightning forked.
Terror sliced.
Another BOOM!
“It’s okay. We’re okay,” my father chanted, his voice long since saltwhipped and hoarse. “There is land beneath our feet. There is always land,
even when there is an ocean between us.”
My sister pressed tighter against me, huddled into a tiny, storm-dripping
ball. “Aslan, make it stop. Please, make it stop!”
I tried to be brave like my father.
“It’s okay, Melike.” I wrapped my arms around her tiny figure, doing my
best not to crush her as another wave tipped us high, so high, then shot us
soaring down its face, landing back on the churning angry surface as froth
splashed high into the sky, clashing with rain, fighting wet with wet.
We landed sideways.
We rocked with horror.
And for a moment, I feared this was it.
The moment we capsized.
But…like all the other moments, the ocean cradled us at the last second,
keeping us upright even while drenching us in fresh brine.
Everyone gasped for breath.
Everyone clung to the sides, the benches, the broken rigging, desperately
holding on, all knowing our strength was fading with every wave.
“It’s okay, canım,” my mother crooned, using the term of endearment I’d
heard a thousand times before. My life. My soul. To my mother, we were all
her life, even while that life was so terribly threatened.
She swallowed back tears and did her best to be brave for us. “Listen to
baba, Melike. He says the land beneath the waves will save us. We will touch
it again soon. You’ll see.”
“I hate the sea!” my cousin, Afet, yelled over the howling storm.
“Emre, what are we going to do?” My mother shouted at my father just as
another wave crested against the savage fork of lightning and smashed
heavily over us.
Spluttering.
Coughing.
Our fingers clung to anything and everything.
Each time the hull was battered by another wave, it grunted as if the
waves were knives, slowly disembowelling it.
Another thunderclap punctured our eardrums.
The boat groaned a little louder. A dying groan.
We’d started this journey with twelve others.
The small boat had been overcrowded, unbalanced, and with a motor that
coughed and spluttered more than it propelled.
I’d had my doubts when my father helped us into it.
But he’d said this was how these things were done.
Covertly, quietly, smuggled across the sea by moonlight.
But the storm had decided that twelve were too many.
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