IX

Neverland, 10 years before Wendy, John, and Michael’s visit

Katrissa swam into wave after wave, chuckling at the way the water lifted her and tickled her stomach. Sunset always brought the biggest swells, and even though her sea sisters told her it was dangerous, she couldn’t resist sneaking away every night to do it. There were tales of mermaids being swept up by a rouge wave or sucked into a whirlpool, into another world. Katrissa laughed at those stories. Besides, she thought, a new world sounded like an awfully big adventure. For as beautiful and plentiful Neverland was, it was still enchanted. Strange magic and peril could still seep into the sheltered paradise that was their home. Katrissa knew that, but, she was also wiser now. Thousands and thousands of sunset...

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