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Born between two worlds, Seyli te Suli Neytiri'ite has always known what it means to not fully belong.
Daughter of Toruk Makto and the fiercest warrior of the forest, she was raised among the Omaticaya-running through trees, breathing with the land, and learning to fight like her mother. But when her family is forced to flee, Seyli is thrown into a new life among the Metkayina... where the ocean does not welcome her the way the forest once did.
In the reef, she struggles to breathe, to swim, to prove she is more than what they see-more than a "half-breed," more than an outsider.
But the sea has its own way of choosing.
As tensions rise and the Sky People return, Seyli finds herself caught between war and peace, loyalty and identity... and something deeper she doesn't understand yet. A bond forms where it shouldn't-between her and Ao'nung, the son of the reef's leaders, who once saw her as weak.
Now, everything is changing.
The sea is calling.
War is coming.
And Seyli must decide who she is... before everything she loves is taken from her.
Because in a world divided by sky, forest, and sea-
she might be the only one meant to bridge them all.