Chapter 6: A Song Of Battles Summary

When Kit asks Ed'Rashtekaresket if the krakens are responsible for the dire predicament Manhattan faces, the great shark is surprised. As they swim along, they discuss the Song and Ed'Rashtekaresket recalls a time ten thousand years before when first the Killer and then the Blue lost control at the critical moment and the spell collapsed. As a result, the Lone One was freed and caused the disruption that humans know as the sinking of Atlantis. Called Afallone in wizardly Speech, the entire island plate was submerged and pushed into the lava at the mantle of the Earth. Nita gets permission to call the great white shark Ed, and he tells them that he is headed for the Northern Rips where there is trouble in the water. First, he agrees to see them home as darkness...