Chapter 58 Magical Force
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"Shouldn't I be floating up without you holding me down?" Frowning, I glanced up. We were deeper in than last time. "And how have I not been crushed by the water pressure?"
"You ask too many irrelevant questions," he snorted, picking up a rock almost four times his size.
"Hate to break it to you bud, but it's not irreverent if you're human and can get crushed to death by water. Or get lost drifting off into the ocean."
Kayn hesitated, suspending the rock above his head. "Magic," he winked. Without any strain, he chugged it through the water.
So, he was much stronger than I thought. Pretending like it wasn't impressive, I rolled my eyes. "Okay, I get it. You're tough and scary. What else?"
But he wasn't done. He picked up another large piece of rock and tore out a chunk from it with his teeth.
I pinned him with a dull look, internally screaming, holy crap. He was terrifying. No wonder the ocean feared his kind. "Show off," I forced out, hoping he wouldn't notice my unease.
It looked like he was grinning again, but it was hard to tell this far away. He threw down the rock, turned, and raised his hands. "Watch this," his voice echoed inside my head.
At first, nothing happened until I noticed a small spot on the ocean floor beginning to spin like a mini whirlpool.
"What are you doing?" I watched a lobster crawl out of a hole close to the area where the water began to spin and scuttled away.
"Give it a sec," Kayn responded.
The whirlpool grew bigger and bigger, turning into a vicious underwater tornado. As it grew, so did the noise.
Fish I didn't see up until now, dispersed into all directions, fleeing the chaos unfolding. It sucked up everything unfortunate to be close by, including a few small sea creatures, rocks, and underwater plants.
"Kayn, you're killing things for no reason!"
"It's just fish," he indicated.
"So are you, stupid."
He chuckled, waving a hand, and fish flew out of the chaos. They lingered for a fraction of a second before they swam away as if nothing had ever happened.
The cyclopean of a whirlpool picked up a rock the size of my parent's cottage, and it spiraled along.
"Okay, you've proved your point. You're a badass, now can you please stop?" I asked. "This is making me nervous."
In an instant, the whirlpool died, and the gigantic rock dropped to the ocean floor with a trembling thud.
I didn't even notice Kayn had moved until he was right beside me, in his normal merman form.
No more creepy Kayn.
"I can do a lot of other cooler stuff," he offered.
I held up a shaky hand, straining to keep it steady so he won't notice. "That was scary enough, thanks."
After that, we did some casual swimming—as Kayn would call it. He took me to see the inside of a kelp forest, which I wouldn't admit out loud but was breathtaking. After that, we wandered around the ocean blue, admiring all the beauty and color the sea had to offer.
Hours may have passed, but I didn't care. I was in the moment.
And somehow, all of it was growing on me, and to my dismay, so was Kayn.
