CHAPTER SEVEN
Ceres stood at the bow of the boat, looking ahead along their route to Haylon with trepidation. They were approaching the Passage of Monsters, where a slender island cut off a strait from the rest of the sea. Right then, it seemed peaceful, with a broad stretch of water past the rocks at the entrance, but Ceres had heard some of the stories about it.
It seemed that Thanos had too. He stood beside her, his hand on his sword, and Ceres could see how white his knuckles were with the tension of it.
“They say the Ancient Ones imprisoned creatures here rather than wipe them out,” Thanos said. “That the things too dangerous to let loose in the rest of the ocean were penned up in one spot.”
Ceres thought about how dangerous some of the other things in the ocean were. What did tha
