Alas, when Cormac and Melusine went in search of their paterfamiliases to learn what had happened to them, they did not like what they had found. For Cormac, he had found his home destroyed by a fallen tree from a yonder cliff, no sign of his father and two books on the kitchen table. One was "Moby-Dick" while the other was the Bible, open to the Book of Kings. Captain Ahab and King Ahab. How curious. There were no signs of any footprints that indicated his father had departed the beach house, so what had happened to his father? Alas, Cormac knew not. For all he knew, his dad had been out and swept out to sea to be turned into a Child of the Storm as well, or worse was now dead and in the net of a fishing boat.
If only Melusine's father had been that lucky. Beneath a dock, the Helena of the Deep and Cormac both listened to a gathering out of people outside of her home. Geoffrey Johns, her father, was dead and no one could have conceived that Melusine was now a merrow-maiden.
Thus, two fathers were lost. One dead with the fate of the other unknown.
Beneath the waves, Cormac sat nearby a grieving Melusine, sobbing into the seafloor. What were they to do? Where were they to go?
They could have just stayed here in the Celtic Sea, but there was a riddle that Cormac could not figure out. How did Urefenkebos know his family? What was that talk about him being a nine-times great-nephew?
Hearing the sound of movement, Cormac and Melusine both looked up. There, floating in the water before them was Orlaith with an understanding expression upon her countenance as she uttered: "Tell me everything, my children."