Oceans are wondrous, Daine says with a good deal of feeling. She used to spend hours quizzing Numair about the various creatures that lived beneath the surface, especially before she was able to take oceangoing shapes and explore things for herself. Dolphin in particular had been a helpful one, and she'd wound up resurfacing with information that was new to everyone, since no one else had been able to gather it before.

Her voice takes a turn for the bitter as she adds, If we weren't stuck on Manhattan, I'd show you the real thing.