The Nine Kneels

Nine sleeping drakes lie drowned in salt beneath the Marran Concord, and the brine that holds them is thinning. Ysabel Serra dives the flooded basins to measure the danger, paying for every touch of a sleeper with a piece of her own memory — her mother's face, her father's name. Someone has been draining the salt for forty years. Waking is coming, and the cost of preventing it may be everything she still remembers.