Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.

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(WARNING: PG13 :Mature content, some harsh language) My name is Jack. Twenty-three years ago, my people crashed on to planet Earth. Our ship was destroyed in the process, leaving us stranded on the planet. The humans gave us a place to stay "temporarily" to work on rebuilding our ship. But about two years later, the humans refused to help us anymore and tore down what we had built of our new ship. We never knew what led them to do so, but my father, our leader, was devastated. The humans and my father set up boundaries in agreement. I was only 5 at the time so I never got a chance to actually come into close contact with a human. I could only learn from books or stories on what humans are like. That is, until a year ago. When I met a very unique girl that stubbled across our border.