He had no answers.
Could the sea forgive him, in time? Could it wash away his sins?
He couldn’t say.
He had surrendered himself to the ocean, and he waited to see where it would take him. Perhaps, one day, he would bump against the flanks of a continent, and he would clamber back to the light. Perhaps there were no other continents, and he would end up back at Orokos. Perhaps he would float until his energy ran out, and the void took him.
In the end, it was all down to chance; but he knew one thing, above all else.
Anything was possible.
Chris Wooding’s first book was published when he was nineteen years old. By the time he had left university he was writing full time and has been ever since. Chris is now the author of twenty-one books that have been translated into twenty languages. His books have won many awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Silver Award and he has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Chris also writes for TV and film.
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