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PodCastle 380: Spirit Forms of the Sea
* Author : Bogi Takács
* Narrator : Setsu Uzume
* Host : Graeme Dunlop
* Audio Producer : Peter Wood
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First published in Sword and Mythos
Spirit Forms of the Sea
by Bogi Takács
Réka steps forward from between two tents. She looks dazed and one of her braids is partly undone; the guard must’ve found her asleep.
She frowns at the stranger and her eyes narrow even further in the morning sunlight.
He smiles at her the way he would smile at one of his younger sisters, or even one of his own children. My stomach turns. Then he lets loose his spirit form and it ascends to the sky, a majestic white horse not matching his pedestrian self.