Page 38 of The Deep End of Death (Twilight Lake #4)

Shay Mac Eoin POV

He couldn’t move, his limbs refusing to cooperate. The stone tumbled down, bouncing off the chasm walls and disappearing into the depths of the Kraken’s trench.

They were gone.

Both Cormac and Maeve turned to foam in the blink of an eye.

He felt their bond, stretched thin, growing tighter until he was sure it would snap.

Maeve was Belisama’s daughter.

She was the daughter of a God.

She couldn’t just die .

Gods didn’t just die .

The Kraken moved its body, shifting the sea's water in its entirety. Shay could not see more than a few tentacles and a beak, but he didn’t want to imagine how large the creature was—and how much was hidden below the sea bed.

My eye has been returned to me the Kraken declared.

Shay felt the voice in his skull, like a hammer between his brows.

He searched for Rainn, finding the Selkie pinned by one of the Kraken’s limbs. Rainn writhed, biting at the purple flesh, but made little headway.

Shay swam to his friend, still in his seal form, his dark eyes wide and panicked as he fought his animal nature. Rainn was much faster as a seal, but the Kraken had caught him still.

Every inch of the chasm was layered with the beast's limbs.

There was no escape; now, the monster had two eyes instead of one.

Shay planted both his legs on the tentacle and bounced; there was enough stretch in the limb that Rainn wriggled free in a sea of black blood, leaking from the bite marks and scratches.

Shay could still feel Maeve through the bond.

She was alive wherever she was.

He could only hope Cormac was, too.