Ancestral Bones

She resented her mother for stealing her freedom. Resented her siblings for being too young. She was a selfish young woman who wanted a way out of her pathetic village life. She wanted adventure, adrenaline, freedom and much much more.
And she found just that beneath the roiling waves crashing against the craggy rock out crops fringing the borders of her village.

Finally!Right?

Wrong. She couldn't have been more wrong. She hadn't been careful of what she wished for.She never wanted her adventure to have a choke full of needle sharp teeth, cold, clammy skin and an appetite for her and what is hers.

To the so called desceptively alluring deities , she was simply a tool to end a war waged millions of years beneath the waves

For her, it was a matter of life and death, of survival..