The killer whale was both hungry and angry, and that hanger drove it to unusual lengths. It let out another piercing whistle of pain and frustration as fire blasted it again from above, but the water was too shallow for it to fully submerge now. Hadama turned and struck back with his tail a final time to deter the snapping jaws before gliding over the sandbar and into knee-deep water with powerful strokes of his wings.
The orca flinched back, finally pausing in its mad charge, and then one beady eye landed on the woman who had stepped into the water with it. There was just enough cold calculation in its eyes to measure the distance between it and Maeve as it gathered itself in preparation for a final surge towards the small, crunchy creature that had dared deny it lunch now that the merman was out of reach.
The orca flinched back, finally pausing in its mad charge, and then one beady eye landed on the woman who had stepped into the water with it. There was just enough cold calculation in its eyes to measure the distance between it and Maeve as it gathered itself in preparation for a final surge towards the small, crunchy creature that had dared deny it lunch now that the merman was out of reach.
