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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Map

Prologue: Fifteen Years Ago

Chapter One: Kissen
Chapter Two: Inara
Chapter Three: Elogast
Chapter Four: Skediceth
Chapter Five: Elogast
Chapter Six: Kissen
Chapter Seven: Inara
Chapter Eight: Elogast
Chapter Nine: Kissen
Chapter Ten: Inara
Chapter Eleven: Elogast
Chapter Twelve: Kissen
Chapter Thirteen: Skediceth
Chapter Fourteen: Kissen
Chapter Fifteen: Elogast
Chapter Sixteen: Inara
Chapter Seventeen: Elogast
Chapter Eighteen: Inara
Chapter Nineteen: Skediceth
Chapter Twenty: Elogast
Chapter Twenty-One: Inara
Chapter Twenty-Two: Kissen
Chapter Twenty-Three: Inara
Chapter Twenty-Four: Elogast
Chapter Twenty-Five: Inara
Chapter Twenty-Six: Elogast
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kissen
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Skediceth
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Elogast
Chapter Thirty: Kissen
Chapter Thirty-One: Elogast
Chapter Thirty-Two: Inara
Chapter Thirty-Three: Kissen
Chapter Thirty-Four: Elogast
Chapter Thirty-Five: Kissen
Chapter Thirty-Six: Inara
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Kissen

Acknowledgments
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HER FATHER FELL IN LOVE WITH A GOD OF THE SEA.
The god’s name was Osidisen, and her parents named Kissen and
her brothers in honour of his attention: Tidean, ‘on the tide’; Lunsen,
‘moon on water’; Mellsenro, ‘the rolling rocks’. And, finally, Kissenna,
‘born on the love of the sea’. Osidisen filled their nets with fish,
taught them when to ride a storm and when to hide, and brought
them safe home with their catch each day. Kissen and her family
grew up in the sea’s favour.
But the sea god didn’t bring fortune to the lands of Talicia.
Eventually, the villages on the hills were enticed by a god of fire,
Hseth, and her promises of riches.
Everyone wanted the wealth of the fire lovers. In Hseth’s name
the Talicians burned their boats and felled their forests to forge
weapons, heat brass, and make great bells which rang from sea cliff
to mountain border. Osidisen’s waters emptied, and smoke rose over
the land. Soon other, darker stories of violence spread from town to
village: sacrifices, hunts, and purges in the fire god’s name, enemies
and old families burned for the fire god’s pleasure.
One night, the night after Mellsenro’s twelfth birthday, when his
fingers were inked with his name, eleven-year-old Kissen woke to
smoke, strangely thick and sweet smelling. It scratched at her
throat.
She came to, and realised she was being carried by men with
cloths tied over their mouths, their faces daubed with coal dust, and
bells shining in their hair like little lamps. Kissen’s limbs wouldn’t
move, and her chest was heavy as if dreams still lay on it. The sweet
smoke, she recognised it: a sleeping drug made by burning sless
seeds, along with other scents she didn’t know. Below her house,
the sea was lashing at the cliffs. Osidisen was angry.
She tried to speak, but her mouth wouldn’t work, her tongue
sticking against her cheek. Her head flopped to one side, and she
saw Mell too, his fresh-inked hand dragging along the floor.
‘Mmmelll,’ Kissen tried again, but her brother didn’t stir. The drug
smoke was seeping through the shutters, through the walls. It hung
in the air.
‘Quiet,’ said one of the men holding her, giving her a shake. She
knew that voice, those smudge-green eyes.
‘N-Naro?’ Kissenna asked, her voice a little stronger now. The
waves crashed outside, and the smoke stirred as some sea wind
forced its way through the cracks in the wattled walls. She felt a
fresh bite of salt air across her face, on her lips. Her head cleared a
little. Naro glanced at her, panic in his eyes.
‘They said they wouldn’t wake yet,’ he said through his mask.
‘Hurry.’ The other voice she recognised too. Mit, Naro’s brother-in-
law. The masks were protecting them from the drug. ‘Hurry!’
They were carrying her deeper into the house, to the hearth at its
centre. ‘What are you doing?’ Kissen asked, her voice thick but clear.
Her body still wouldn’t move.
They reached the hearth, a round stone beneath the thatch roof
which opened to the sky so smoke could escape. Around the embers
of their evening’s fire, a tangled cage had been set, in the shape of a
bell, forged out of driftwood and metal. Her parents were already
bound to its outer edges. Her brothers were being tied: ankle, ankle,
arms, neck. Offerings. Kissen was the last.
Naro and Mit flung her against the bars next to her father. The sea
wind tore through the smoke hole in the roof, ripping around the
beams. The shutters rattled and the house shook with the sounds of
angry water.
‘Naro, stop,’ said Kissen, stronger now; the sless smoke was
almost gone from the air, though it bound her limbs still. ‘Why are
you doing this?’
 Naro was twisting her legs to tie them to the foot of the cage
while Mit strapped her hands to the bars. Lunsen was crying,
hiccupping with fear. She had lost sight of Mell. Kissen found the
strength to struggle as they bound her against the metal, but they
were bigger and stronger than she was. Outside, bells were ringing,
their sound broken and battered by the rising wind. The sound could
have been from thousands, though the village was barely a hundred
souls. All of their neighbours must be out there. They had planned
this together, to catch the sea god’s favoured family. Kissen could
smell hot pitch close at hand. Terror clawed down her throat.
‘We’re not sorry, liln,’ said Mit. How dare he call her ‘little one’?
That was what uncles did, friends. He was not a friend. He was a
traitor. ‘It is what must be.’
Kissen drew up her strength and snapped at his hand with her
sharp teeth. He leapt away, clutching his thumb pad where she had
caught it.
‘Leave her,’ he snapped. ‘It’s time. They won’t wait for us.’
They ran. Kissen was shaking. She spat out Mit’s blood and tried
to breathe, turning against the ropes to find the closest family.
‘Papa.’ He was not far from her. ‘Papa!’
Bern, her father, was breathing badly. His mouth was torn and
bloody, his face bruised. They must have beaten him in his drugged
sleep. That ruined mouth had kissed the god of the sea, but now
coal daubed his forehead in the bell-shaped symbol of Hseth.
The air thickened with smoke again, not sweet this time but bitter
and sticky, hot and black, rising up through the floor. Their village
had lit the pitch beneath their stilt foundations.
Kissen yanked at her wrists, her legs. ‘Papa!’ she cried. They had
left her neck unbound when she had tried to bite. She writhed,
tugging her arm into strange contortions, the bones popping as she
craned her neck towards her closer hand. There. She could reach.
She set her teeth to the rope, gnawing and tugging at the knot. It
was sea-rope, not meant for fraying, but she didn’t want to die.
Tidean was awake too. ‘You filthy castoffs,’ he was shouting,
struggling against his bindings, choking as they tightened on his
throat. He coughed on the smoke. ‘You saltless traitors!’ His voice
was raw.
The heat was rising. Kissen could feel it on the soles of her feet.
‘Be calm,’ their mother said, her voice drug-thick. ‘Be calm, my loves.
Osidisen will save us. I promise.’
They couldn’t see the flames yet, but the air swam. Osidisen’s sea
wind was still forcing its way inside, and the smoke and air were
dancing together like oil and water. Kissen’s mouth, her eyes, her
nose dried out. She set her teeth to the rope with renewed force.
‘I’ll make you all pay for this!’ Tidean yelled his promise over his
mother’s, but he was bound too tight, tighter than Kissenna. His wild
thrashing did no good. The floor cracked in places. Bright light
peeked through from the foundations. The walls blackened. Then,
an ember, a spark, a lick of flame, and the wooden doorway caught
alight, sending sparks into Tidean’s eyes. He screamed, and
thrashed.
‘Breathe deep, my son,’ said his mother. ‘It’s all right, Osidisen will
come.’ She was lying, lying to ease their deaths, lying to herself.
Osidisen was a water god; he would not come far past the shoreline,
not even for them, just as no fire god would dare swim in the sea.
Gods couldn’t save them now.
The rope sliced the delicate flesh between Kissen’s teeth, and
blood poured thick and hot across her tongue. She growled and bit
down hard, wrenching at her restraint. A shot of pain, a grinding in
her gums, then a snap. The rope! The rope was loose, her canine
still buried in it, ripped clean from her mouth.
Kissen snatched her wrist free and went to work on the other,
letting her salt blood drip down her chin onto the stone below,
where it hissed and steamed.
Second hand, free! Her feet. She bloodied her nails on the ropes,
snarling with desperation. She would save them. She had to. Her
breath was hot, her eyes stinging, but she would not stop. Her
mother was coughing now.
‘Breathe deep, my children,’ she said. Kissen could hear the tears
in her voice. Lunsen was whimpering now; Tidean’s struggles were
less and less intense. Mell had not even stirred. ‘Let the smoke take
you to sleep, and Osidisen will come for you.’
Kissen’s ropes came away, and her feet were loose. The floor was
now on fire, and the sea wind was doing nothing but thinning the
smoke, losing them the chance their mother wished for: a painless
death.
‘Papa.’ They had tied her pa hard to the metal, which was getting
hotter. Kissen climbed anyway, her hands burning.
‘Kissenna,’ Papa mumbled through his swollen lips. His eyes were
open. They shone with dazed relief. ‘My girl, run.’
‘I’m going to save you,’ she growled between coughs. ‘I’ll save you
all.’
Kissen pressed her fingers into the hard sailor’s knots; they were
tight, but she could work them, releasing her papa a piece at a time.
Her eyes were stinging. Mell woke at last and yelled as the flames
reached the edges of the hearth, nipping at his heels. Good, all
awake. If they were awake, they could run. She freed her father’s
left hand and moved to his foot while he unbound his right. They
were losing time. The sound of the bells outside was rising,
sonorous, merging into a single note, louder than the fire.
The flames changed. They twisted together, spinning up the walls,
then plunging to the floor in a pillar of fire, sparks spinning out like
snow. Laughter crackled in the smoke, harsh and delighted.
The fire span and blossomed into skirts of light and embers.
Within them, a woman twirled, her arms wide. Hseth, the fire god.
Her hair sparked with yellows and poisoned red, and heat rose from
her, cracking and splitting the wood and beams.
‘Sea god!’ she cried, then she called him by his name. ‘Osidisen!
Look how they turned from you and gave your loves to me. You
cannot touch me, you gutted old water goat! This land is mine!’
Hseth did not look at Kissen or her family. She did not flinch at
their screams. She burst through the ceiling in a scourge of flame
and the roof came crashing down.
Kissen blinked. Black heat. Then light. Then pain. The cage was
shattered under the heavy beams. Mell had stopped screaming. She
blinked again. Her father was there, free from his ropes. Her head
hurt. Her mouth was full of ash.
‘Pa …’ she choked out. He was wrenching the rubble from her, but
he could not lift the warped metal that had buried itself into her
right leg, shattering it below the knee. By flesh and bone she was
trapped. She was going to die; she could see it in her father’s eyes.
‘It will be all right, Kissenna,’ he said, lying like her mother had, in
the soft voice Osidisen admired. He stroked her hair as if putting her
to sleep. ‘Be brave, my love, my daughter.’
‘Run away, Papa,’ she said, stifling a sob of fear. ‘Please.’
‘Don’t cry, Kissenna,’ he said. ‘It is better this way.’
Pain. Blinding, atrocious pain. It drove into Kissen’s leg. She
screamed, but the smoke stuffed the noise back into her throat. Her
papa had orange-hot metal sizzling in his hands, fresh and hissing
with both of their blood. He heaved it up high.
‘Her leg for her safety, Osidisen!’ he cried. ‘I beg you, save her
from this place in return for this, her flesh, blood and bone, my own
making.’
He brought the metal down another time and turned.
Kissenna screamed again, the pain devouring her faster than the
fire. But her father was not done. Her vision went black, white.
When she came to, her papa was dragging her out of the wreckage,
leaving the bottom of her leg behind. Charcoal ran down his face,
cut through with tears, streaming into his beard.
Then she saw the seas below their shattered walls. Raging,
impotent, beating at the base of the cliff. The salt air rose. It had
stung Kissen awake for a moment. The waves were catching each
piece of wood as it fell from the house and tearing it apart.
‘My life, Osidisen!’ her father cried. ‘My life for hers, the last thing
I will ever ask.’
‘No!’ Kissen croaked, barely conscious.
‘This you owe to me! My lover, my friend. You owe it to her now.
My life for Kissenna’s!’
The sea rose, tearing up the cliff as if to reach him. Osidisen’s face
rose from the waves, his eyes as dark as the depths. For a moment,
Kissen hoped he would deny it, save her father instead.
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