The Sea Beneath Mauritius Six months after the Egg shattered and the land's hunger was tamed, Laila thought she had found peace. But the sea keeps its own ledger, and it is full. When the drowned begin to walk—centuries of souls preserved in coral and bone—Laila discovers that freeing the land was only the beginning. Now she must descend into the deep, where something ancient and hungry has been waiting since the first ship sank. The ocean remembers everything. And it will not be forgotten.