In a seaside town of sandy beaches and ocean breezes, Sapphy has never felt so far from the sea. The crowded shore at St. Pirans is nothing like the cove at Sapphy's old home, where she first found her way into the underwater world of Ingo.

But Ingo's pull is strong, and it always finds a way. Soon Sapphy and her brother, Conor, are swimming beneath the waves again, riding the currents and teasing their Mer friend Faro. As Sapphy goes deeper into Ingo, she learns to feel more at home in the sea—even as she begins to be aware of its dangers.

There's the danger of going in too deep, and breaking the delicate balance between Sapphy's life on land and her life in Ingo. There's the mysterious disappearance of Sapphy's father, an experienced sailor who should never have drowned. And then there's Ingo itself—a restless power as old as the world, as strong as the tides, and more dangerous than anything Sapphy has ever known.

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The Tide Knot

By Helen Dunmore

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright �2008 Helen Dunmore
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780060818555

Chapter One

Ingo at night. It's not completely dark, though. The moon is riding high, and there's enough light to turn the water a rich, mysterious blue.

I am deep in Ingo, swimming through the moonlit water. Faro's here somewhere, I'm sure he is. I can't see him, but I'm not scared. There's just enough light to see by. There's a glimmer of rock and a green and silver school of mackerel—

Imagine being lost underwater in total blackness. I'd panic. But it's dangerous to panic in Ingo. You mustn't think of the Air. You must forget that human beings can't live underwater, and then you'll find that you can.

Faro was here a moment ago, I'm sure of it. He's keeping himself hidden, but I don't know why. Even if it was totally dark, I expect he'd still be able to see me through the water. Faro is Mer, and he belongs here. Ingo is his home. And I'm human, and I don't belong.

But it isn't as simple as that. There's something else in me, the Mer blood that came to me and my brother, Conor, from our ancestors. It's my Mer blood that draws me to Ingo, beneath the surface of the water. I'd probably drown without my Mer blood, but it's best not to think of that—

"Faro?" Nobody answers. All the same, I know he is close. But I won't call again. I'm not going to give Faro the satisfaction of thinking that I'm scared or that I need him. I can survive in Ingo without him. I don't need to hold on to him anymore, the way I did last year when I first came to Ingo. The water is rich with oxygen. It knows how to keep me alive.

I swim on. This light is very strange. Just for a moment that underwater reef didn't look as if it was made from rock. It looked like the ruins of a great building, carved from stone thousands of years ago. I blink. No, it's a reef, that's all.

Why am I here in Ingo tonight? I can't remember clearly. Maybe I woke up in the dead of night and heard a voice calling from the sea. Did I climb down the path, down the rocks to our cove, and then slip into the water secretly?

Don't be so stupid, Sapphire. You don't live in the cottage anymore, remember? You've left Senara. You're living in St. Pirans, with Mum and Conor and Sadie. And Roger is never far away. How could you have forgotten all that?

So how did I get here? I must have come down to Polquidden Beach and dived into Ingo from there. Yes, that was it. I remember now. I was in bed, drifting off to sleep, and then I felt Ingo calling me. That call, which is so powerful that every cell of my body has to answer it. Ingo was waiting for me. I would be able to dive down and down and down, beneath the skin of the water, into Ingo. I would swim with the currents through the underwater world that is so strange and mysterious and yet also feels like home.

Yes, I remember putting on my jeans and hooded top and creeping downstairs in the moonlight from the landing window. Stealthily unlocking the front door and then running down to Polquidden Beach, where the water shone in the moonlight and the voice of Ingo was so strong that I couldn't hear anything else.

And now I'm in Ingo again. Ever since we moved to St. Pirans, I've been trying to get back here, but it's never worked before tonight. There's too much noise in St. Pirans, too many people, shops, caf�s and car parks. But at night maybe it's different. Maybe the dark is like a key that turns the lock and opens Ingo.

"Greetings, little sister."

"Faro!"

I turn in a swirl of water, and there he is.

"Faro! Where've you been? Why haven't I seen you for so long?"

His hand grasps mine. Even in the moonlight his teasing smile is the same as ever.

"We're here now, aren't we? Nothing else matters. Sapphire, I've got so much to show you."

He lets go of my hand and backflips into a somersault, and then another and another until the water's churning so fast I can't see him at all. At last he stops in a seethe of bubbles and grabs my hand again.

"Come on, Sapphire. Time to go. Night is the best time of all."

"Why is it the best time of all, Faro?"

"Because at night you see things you can't see by day."

"What things?"

"You'll see."

We join hands. There's a current racing ahead, the color of the darkest blue velvet. We plunge forward. The current is so strong that it crushes me. I'm jolting, juddering, struggling in its grip, but I can't break away. It's got me, like a cat with a bird in its claws. It's much too powerful for me, and it knows its own strength.

This is like the moment when you get onto the most terrifying ride of all at a theme park and you're strapped in, helpless to escape. The ride begins to move and you see a mocking smile on the face of the attendants and you realize that they don't care at all. But Ingo is no theme park, where people lose their jobs if they kill the customers. Anything can happen here. If I die now, no one will ever know. They'll only say that I drowned, like they said Dad drowned.

Don't panic, Sapphire. Let the current take you where it wants. Wherever you go, you'll be safe. Reassuring thoughts echo in my head, and I'm not sure for a moment if they are my thoughts or Faro's. Are we sharing our thoughts again, the way we did last summer? Relax, let the current take you. Don't resist it, or you'll get hurt. Jolts of force shake me. I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I can't breathe—

Continues...

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