It was not the first time he'd found himself in a new body with new sensory organs, but the lateral line of this body was almost overwhelming in the information it relayed to his brain on the movement of the water around him, disturbances caused by other fish, by a great, slow presence nearby, by the great displacement coming at him from behind—
Jigano twisted as he gave himself over to his new body’s instincts, powerful muscles running the length of his torpedo-shaped torso propelling him at speeds that would have been breathtaking had he breathed the way he was used to. Water rushed over and through his gills, pushing energy into his streamlined body as he dove down, down into the dark and the depths, a flickering streamer of silver in the dimming light.
And his call through the alien waters through the Beastmaster web caught and held an unexpected bounty: a bull sperm whale feeding nearby, unnoticed by a bird above the waves but sensed now by a shark’s exquisite receptors – that slow bulk he’d noticed before. The big male turned, powerful tail propelling it towards the orca as it worked itself up to ramming speed to dissuade the smaller ocean predator from its feeding grounds, called and compelled to the thresher shark’s defense.
Jigano twisted as he gave himself over to his new body’s instincts, powerful muscles running the length of his torpedo-shaped torso propelling him at speeds that would have been breathtaking had he breathed the way he was used to. Water rushed over and through his gills, pushing energy into his streamlined body as he dove down, down into the dark and the depths, a flickering streamer of silver in the dimming light.
And his call through the alien waters through the Beastmaster web caught and held an unexpected bounty: a bull sperm whale feeding nearby, unnoticed by a bird above the waves but sensed now by a shark’s exquisite receptors – that slow bulk he’d noticed before. The big male turned, powerful tail propelling it towards the orca as it worked itself up to ramming speed to dissuade the smaller ocean predator from its feeding grounds, called and compelled to the thresher shark’s defense.
