"Falamar." There was nothing but darkness. "Falamar." I twisted in my dreams. I still imagined the tentacle around my leg through the veil of fear and emptiness. I drifted toward eternal sleep, but something wouldn't let me go. "Falamar." I opened my eyes and there was water all around, a world without earth or sky. I floated weightless in the current, forever falling in the sea's caress. There was another above me, a woman, but as inhuman as she was beautiful. She was as the tide, powerful but yielding. "Who are you?" I asked. "I am Condatis, the archangel of Danalin, God of the Sea."