Lachlan Moonwave
the Shelldredge Merman
Named for the inland lake that gave you your first memory of water, and the wave that lifts the moon’s light over the shell-gardens of the shore.
Power
Shellbind — you can command the bivalves to clamp shut or gape open, but each call leaves a hairline fracture in your own ribs that heals slower than it should.
- Familiar
- A blue-legged hermit crab named Scuttle
- Tide
- the Shelldredge Flood
You are prying a razor clam from a crevice when the undertow yanks you under. You open your eyes in the foam and see a buried city of scallop shells, each one a tiny ward against the dark. You spend the rest of that day digging them free, one by one, because the sea asked you to.