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Prologue
The dark waves roared against the rocks like an angry giant trying to crush everything in its path. The wind howled, tore at the sails and threw salty spray into their faces. Captain Yegor Volkov stood at the stern of his ship, the Marlin, gripping the wheel so tightly that his knuckles turned white. He knew that this storm was no accident. The sea always gave him signs.
And today it screamed danger.

Chapter 1. Return
The fishing village of Pribrezhny greeted Yegor with silence. The houses, pressed close to each other as if afraid of the sea's wrath, were smoking from their chimneys. Everything here was the same as ten years ago, when he went to sea, vowing never to return.
But fate decreed otherwise.
- Volkov? - a hoarse voice behind him made him turn around.
Old Semyon, who once taught Yegor to tie knots, looked at him with distrust.
- Long time no see, grandpa.
- A long time ago... - Semyon spat in the sand. - And why did you come back now?
Yegor silently pulled a crumpled envelope out of his pocket. A letter from his sister, which he had received a month ago. Just three words:
"They found us. Help."

Chapter 2. The Secret of the Old Lighthouse
Anna, Yegor's younger sister, disappeared the same night he set foot on shore. Her house was in disarray, and on the table lay an old map with a mark at an abandoned lighthouse.
The lighthouse stood at the edge of the world, where the sea met the sky. Locals whispered that the spirits of dead sailors lived there. But Yegor knew there was something much more real there.
As he climbed the creaky steps, he found the diary of his father, Captain Volkov, who had gone missing many years ago. The last entry read:
"They are not people. They came from the depths..."

Chapter 3. Curse of the Deep
Fishermen told legends about the "Dark Sails" - a ghost ship that appears before a storm. They said that its crew were those who were taken by the sea, but they did not die... they changed.
Egor didn’t believe in fairy tales until one night he saw them.
Figures in tattered cloaks, their skin covered in scales, emerged from the water. Their eyes glowed with a cold green fire. They were looking for something. Or someone.

Chapter 4. The Last Flight
"They took Anna," whispered the old fortune teller Maria when Yegor came to her. "And soon they'll take the rest."
- Who are they?
— Those we forgot. Those the sea did not let go.
Yegor realized that in order to save his sister, he would have to go out into the open sea and meet them face to face.
The Marlin was cutting through the waves again. The storm was approaching. Somewhere ahead, in the darkness, the ship with the Dark Sails was waiting.
And the sea is raging...

The Sea Is Raging. Book Two: Song of the Deep
Prologue. The One Who Returned
The water was icy.
It filled his lungs, squeezed his heart, and forced out the last bits of air. Yegor felt his body being torn between two worlds - a dark abyss calling down, and a distant surface where light remained.
“I shouldn’t die,” flashed through my mind.
And then It touched his mind.
Not a voice. Not a sound. But something greater – older than thought itself.
- You chose them. But the sea does not let its own go.
Tentacles wrapped around his body and darkness engulfed everything.

Chapter 1. Awakening
The first thing he tasted was salt.
It was everywhere: on my lips, in my nose, under my nails. My body ached as if it had been put through a millstone.
"He's breathing!" someone's hoarse voice broke through the noise in his ears.
Yegor opened his eyes. A face, cut with wrinkles and scars, leaned over him.
“Lukyan?” he tried to whisper, but instead of words, only a wheeze came out of his throat.
- Don't say. You were dead for three days.
— Where… am I?
The old man turned his gaze to the horizon.
- At the end of the world, son.
Behind Lukyan, rocking on the waves, stood the Marlin. But something was wrong.
The wood of the hull is blackened, as if charred. There are strange spots on the sails, reminiscent of signs.
And most importantly, Yegor felt it.
Ship.
It was as if it had become a part of him.

Chapter 2. Mark of the Depths
“We found you in Black Bay,” Lukyan said, pouring rum into a mug. “You were lying on the sand, and around you…”
He fell silent.
— Around what?
— Fish. Dead. Every single one of them. And there are footprints in the sand.
- What traces?
- Not human.
Egor raised his hand and suddenly noticed that a thin membrane had stretched between his fingers.
Lukyan saw this. His face was distorted with horror.
- They are already in you.
Suddenly the Marlin shuddered. No wind. No waves.
It was as if something underwater had touched its bottom.

Chapter 3. The Call
At night Egor heard a song.
It poured from the depths, low and vibrating, like the moans of a whale.
"Do you feel it?" the voice whispered.
Egor turned around abruptly. Anna was standing in the corner of the cabin.
But it wasn't his sister.
Her eyes were shining. Her skin was covered with mother-of-pearl scales.
- You have accepted our fate, but not completely. Father calls you.
- Father is dead.
- No one dies in the depths.
She extended her hand.
- He wants to show you the truth.

Chapter 4. Temple
They sailed in pitch darkness.
Anna led him through underwater canyons where the walls were covered with ancient frescoes.
They show people with tentacles instead of faces.
Cities sinking into the abyss.
And It.
He Who Sleeps.
“We have served Him for thousands of years,” Anna’s voice sounded in his head. “He grants immortality.”
- This is not immortality. This is a curse.
Anna laughed.
- You haven't seen yet what's hidden in the depths.
And then the Temple opened before them.

Chapter 5. Father
Captain Volkov sat on a throne of bones.
His body merged with the sea abyss - tentacles grew from his back, his eyes became too big, too black.
- Son.
Egor couldn't speak.
- You chose us. But you are afraid to accept the gift.
— I don’t want to become… this.
- You already have.
Father stood up.
— The sea gave you strength. But you have to pay for everything.
- How?
- A victim.

Chapter 6. Choice
- Whom?
- The one you love.
Anna froze.
- No…
The father turned to her.
- You knew the rules.
Egor rushed forward, but the tentacles grabbed him.
- No! I won't give her up!
- Then the sea will take you.
Darkness closed in on him.

Epilogue. The Flow
Anna is standing on the shore.
In his hands is an old marine compass. The needle does not move.
She knows that somewhere there, in the depths, her brother is still alive.
But he is no longer human.
And the sea is raging...

The Sea Is Raging. Book Three: The Blood Curse
Prologue. The Last Shore
The compass in Anna's hands suddenly shook.
The arrow, frozen for years, jerked sharply and pointed to the sea.
“He’s alive…” she whispered, but immediately felt bitterness on her lips.
It was blood.
Her nosebleeds have returned. The same ones that started in the Temple of the Deep.
Sign.
She is changing too.

Chapter 1. Dreams of the Drowned
Anna woke up from a scream.
Her own.
In her dream she saw him again - Yegor, standing on the deck of the Marlin, but it was not him.
His skin was blue, his eyes were glowing, and black water was pouring out of his mouth.
“You must come…” he whispered. “Otherwise I will take everyone.”
She jumped out of bed and saw wet footprints on the floor.
From the sea.
But the shore was half a kilometer away.

Chapter 2. Council of Elders
In a secret shack behind the fishing village, those who knew the truth gathered.
Old Lukyan.
Fortune teller Maria, whose eyes were dimmed by visions.
And the stranger in the cloak - a man without a name, whom everyone called the Wanderer.
"Your brother has become the Voice of the Abyss," said the Wanderer, looking at the bloody footprints on the floor. "He calls you because you are the last one who still has human blood in you."
- What does he want?
- The victim.
- Me?
- No.
The wanderer raised his head.
- He wants to come back. And for that he needs a new vessel.
- Who?..
- Your father.

Chapter 3. The Cursed Flight
Anna stole a fishing boat and headed to Black Bay.
The water around was boiling.
The fish jumped onto the deck, their eyes empty.
And then she saw him.
"Marlin".
But now it didn't look like a ship.
Its sides were covered with a slippery film, its masts were bent like the ribs of a monster, and its sails moved like the wings of a bat.
And Yegor stood at the stern.
No longer human.

Chapter 4. The Face of the Abyss
“You came,” his voice sounded like an echo.
- Why did you call me?
- To show the truth.
He stepped forward, and Anna saw that his body was translucent—shadows were visible through his skin.
- Father didn't just want a sacrifice. He wanted to return to the world of the living. Through me.
- But you didn't give it to him.
- No. I made it worse.
He tore his shirt and Anna saw.
Face.
Captain Volkov's face emerging from Yegor's chest.
- He is in me. And soon I will become him.

Chapter 5. The Last Choice
- How to stop this?
- Only one way.
Egor handed her a knife.
- Kill me. Burn the ship. And run.
- No!
- You must!
Suddenly, his father's face on his chest opened its eyes.
— SHE'S OURS.
Tentacles burst out of the deck and grabbed Anna.

Chapter 6. Blood and Salt
Anna plunged the knife into her brother's chest.
Black water gushed from the wound.
"Marlin" groaned as if alive.
Captain Volkov screamed.
Anna set fire to a barrel of oil and jumped overboard.
She swam with all her might, and there was an explosion behind her.
A pillar of fire shot up into the sky.
And then the sea roared.

Epilogue. New Wave
A year has passed.
Anna returned to the village, but no one recognizes her.
Her eyes are too shiny now.
There is an old compass in the chest under the bed.
The arrow is shaking again.
Because the sea never forgets its own.
And it rages...

The Sea Is Raging. Book Four: The Wanderer
Prologue. A Man Without a Shore
He came from the sea on the night when all the lighthouses went out.
Fishermen found him on the shore, without a boat, without a name, without memory. Only a cloak made from the sails of dead ships and a knife with a handle of black coral gave him away as someone who knew too much.
“What is your name?” asked old Lukyan.
The man looked up - one was blue like the depths, the other was a murky white, like foam before a storm.
- I am a Wanderer.
And then the fortune teller Maria fell to her knees.
Because she recognized him.
The one who was captain before Volkov.
The one who first made a deal with the Abyss.

Chapter 1. Contract
Seven years ago.
The Marlin was sinking.
Captain Ilya Svetlov (not yet a Wanderer) clutched a medallion with a portrait of his wife. Water was already flooding the cabin, and the shadow over the ship was growing.
"Save them," he whispered into the abyss. "Take me."
From the darkness, something extended a tentacle and touched his forehead.
— The price is your memory. You will serve until the sea returns you.
- I agree.
The water closed over him.

Chapter 2. Song of the Forgotten
The wanderer remembered only fragments:
— Wife. Daughter. Ship.
But the faces were erased like writing in the sand.
But he heard voices - all those who had been taken by the sea. They whispered in the surf, sang in the storm, knocked on the sides of the boats.
Especially one - a child's one.
- Dad…
He turned around. A girl in a blue dress was sitting on the wave.
- Lera?
But the wave broke and the girl crumbled into foam.
Maria said it was a curse.
Seeing those you couldn't save.

Chapter 3. The End of the Road
When Anna asked why he was helping her, the Wanderer untied the bag.
There lay:
- Letter from Captain Volkov (still human).
- Map marked "Temple".
- A baby shoe.
- I led the Marlin to Volkov. I knew where it was going. And...
He touched his white eye.
— …didn’t stop him.
Now the sea demands debt.

Chapter 4. The Last Flight
They went out into the open sea - Anna, the Wanderer and Yegor's shadow, which clung to the side.
“Are you sure?” Anna shouted.
- No. But it is the only way.
He threw his wife's medallion into the water.
The sea rose up.
The Marlin rose from the depths, rotten but whole.
Captain Volkov stood at the stern.
Real.
- Ilya? - He grinned. - Are you still serving?
The wanderer pulled out a knife.
- Not today.

Epilogue. Return
When it was all over, Anna found two things on the shore:
1. Wanderer's Cloak (empty).
2. A fresh trail - two pairs of steps leading into the sea.
One is big.
The second one is for children.
And on the sand lay a medallion, as pure as the day it was given to the sea.
The sea is raging...
But sometimes it pays back debts.

The Sea Is Raging. Book Five: Daughter of the Abyss
Prologue. Tidal Mist
She woke up from the cries of seagulls.
But there were no seagulls.
Only the quiet splash of water in the flooded bedroom and a reflection in the mirror that was not her own.
“Lera...” her lips whispered, but her voice sounded too deep, as if it was coming from the bottom.
There was a strange mark on his wrist, as if someone had wrapped their webbed fingers around it.
Outside the window the sea lay absolutely motionless, as if holding its breath.
A hundred years have passed.
But the Abyss did not forget.

Chapter 1. Inheritance
The old house on the cliff crumbled into the sea piece by piece, just like Lera’s memories.
She never saw her father. Only a medallion with a faded portrait and a leather-bound diary that her mother forbade her to open.
“He went to sea and never came back,” said the mother. “Like all the Svetlovs.”
But today, on her twentieth birthday, Lera broke the ban.
First page of the diary:
"If you are reading this, I am either dead or have become something else. But know this: the sea always returns for its children."
And the last page was covered with the same word, written in trembling letters:
"Sorry."

Chapter 2. The Call
The dreams started a week ago.
It’s still the same: she’s standing on the deck of a ship that’s not on any map, and lights are floating around her – blue, like the depths.
And the voice:
- You must find me.
At the port, an old cartographer (the last one who remembered the legends about the "Marlin") showed her a map.
"Here," he pointed at an empty spot in the ocean. "But this isn't just water. This is a Door."
— To where?
- To the place where your father was supposed to take you.
The cartographer suddenly grabbed her hand, his eyes turning white with horror:
- They are already in you. I see... scales.
Lera broke free and saw:
The skin between her fingers began to turn grey.

Chapter 3. Ghost Team
"Severianka" is a rusty schooner with a crew that doesn't ask questions.
Captain Grot (an ageless man with scars like tentacles) studied her mark.
- It's not a curse. It's an invitation.
— From whom?
— From the Forgotten One.
At night, Lera heard the team whispering:
- She's Svetlova...
- So, "Marlin" will wake up.
And in the morning there was a dead sailor lying on the deck, with his face full of black water.
Grot was not surprised:
- He said he saw lights underwater. They don't like witnesses.

Chapter 4. The Door
They came to the Empty Place.
The sea was unnaturally smooth, like the mirror in Lera’s house.
"Now it's your turn," said Grot. "Call him."
Lera touched the water and the mirror broke.
The Marlin surfaced, rotten but whole, with sails made of shadows.
There was a man in a cloak standing at the stern.
- Dad?
He took off his hood.
Half of his face was human.
The second one is no.
- You're late, daughter. I've already begun to forget.

Chapter 5. The Deal
- Why did you call me?
— To give a choice.
He pointed to the water, and Lera saw:
Mother. Home. Life on the shore.
— Stay.
Then the second vision:
Depths. Father. Strength.
- Or follow me.
- What if I refuse?
- Then It will take you itself.
The ship suddenly shuddered - something huge slid under the keel.
The choice had to be made now.

Epilogue. Blood and Salt
At dawn, the Severianka returned without Lera.
Groth stood on the deck, clutching her diary.
Last entry:
"I chose the third one.
I will become the Door.
So that they never come out."
And in the distance, on the border of the Empty Place, there now stood a new lighthouse.
His light was too blue.
And when the waves crashed against the rocks, it seemed as if someone was whispering a name.
The sea is raging...
But now he has a voice.

The Sea Is Raging. Book Six: War of the Deep
Prologue. Awakening
It woke up hungry.
That day the tide did not recede. The water rose higher than usual and remained, as if the sea had decided to taste the land.
Fishermen whispered of strange lights in the deep. Of shadows that swam too fast. Of ships that had sailed and never returned.
And then the first dead people came.
Thrown up by the waves, they lay on the sand with their mouths wide open, as if screaming without a sound.
Their eyes were filled with inky darkness.
The war has begun.

Chapter 1. The Rift
Grotto stood at the edge of the pier, watching the water in the bay slowly darken.
“It’s expanding,” he muttered.
“What?” asked the cabin boy.
- Door.
That same rift between the worlds that Lera had sealed with herself. But now something was pushing from within.
"We won't survive this," said Grot. "If It comes out, the sea will take everything."
The cabin boy looked at his hands; a thin membrane was already visible between his fingers.
They all changed.

Chapter 2. Union
Anna Volkova (now grey-haired, with eyes like a seagull) came herself.
“You knew this would happen,” she told Grot.
- Yes.
- So what now?
- Either we close the Door forever. Or we become part of the depths.
She took out an old compass - the very one that once belonged to Yegor.
- Does it lead to Him?
- No.
Grot chuckled.
- He leads to Lera.

Chapter 3. Deep Fleet
They gathered everyone who still remembered the truth:
- Rybakov, whose grandfathers sailed with Volkov.
- Women from the coast who saw dreams of the Abyss.
- Children who had salty blood flowing through their veins.
Their ships were old, but on the bow of each was a carved bone figurine - protection from the Darkness.
“We can’t fight,” someone said.
“We don’t need it,” Grot replied.
- Then what?
- We have to get Lera back.
The sea roared as if it heard them.

Chapter 4. Fall
Getting to the Empty Place was half the trouble.
The second half began when the ships entered the fog.
They sailed for a day.
Two.
Three.
But the fog did not clear.
People began to hear voices:
- It's me, mom...
- Come back...
- Open the Door...
And then the first ship disappeared.
No sound.
No splash.
As if it never existed.

Chapter 5. The Face of the Abyss
Lera was waiting for them.
She stood on the water, but her body was translucent, as if woven from sea light.
"You shouldn't have come," she said.
“It’s breaking through,” Grot replied.
- I know.
- Can you stop this?
- No.
She looked down and the water was boiling beneath her.
- But I can open the Door completely.
And let It decide for itself.

Epilogue. Tide
They returned without Grotto.
Without three ships.
Without hope.
But the next day the sea retreated.
Fishermen found on the shore:
- Grotto's old cloak (but dry, as if it hadn't been worn for a hundred years).
- Compass (the arrow pointed north again).
- And one baby shoe (brand new).
And in the distance, on the horizon, Lera’s lighthouse went out.
But the sea...
The sea is raging.

The Sea Is Raging. Book Seven: The Bones of the Grotto
Prologue: What the Tide Brings Out
The hand was found first.
Pale, eaten away by salt, with a blue scrap of a tattoo - an anchor and a date that no one could read.
The fishermen crossed themselves. This can't be tolerated for no reason.
“This is the Grotto,” whispered the old man near the nets.
But they were wrong.
Because the next day the sea washed up a skull.
And in his teeth he was holding a rusty key.

Chapter 1. The Last Flight of the Severianka
Cabin boy's diary found in an empty rum barrel:
"The captain had not slept for three nights. He said he heard a knock on the bottom. Yesterday he ordered himself to be tied to the wheel. This morning he was not there.
Only wet footprints lead overboard.
We turned back. But the sea does not let go.
It whispers:
"The Grotto promised..."

Chapter 2. The Key to the Black Door
The key fits an antique safe in the Drunken Whale tavern.
Inside:
- A map with an "X" mark (but the paper is burnt exactly where the space should be).
- A letter in a woman's envelope ("She is not your daughter. The sea gave her to us in exchange for you").
- And a bone. A rib. With the words engraved:
"Whoever finds it will become me."


Chapter 3. Shadow in the Fog
They followed the trail.
- Grotto's former lover (now blind, but dreaming of the depths).
- The cabin boy's son (with webbing between his fingers).
- And a stranger who knew Grot's real name.
In Three Rocks Bay they were overtaken by fog.
And the figure is tall, with shoulders dripping with sea water.
"Have you come for the truth?" asked Grot's voice.
But when the fog cleared, only a seagull was sitting on the rock.
With human eyes.

Chapter 4. Two Captains
The truth turned out to be simpler and more terrible:
Grotto was never human.
He is the last of the Marlin crew, the one who survived when Volkov went into the depths.
His real name has been erased.
His age is beyond calculation.
And he didn't disappear.
He woke up.
Because at the bottom, in the wreckage of the Marlin, lies a body.
His body.
And what walks on the earth is only a shadow.

Chapter 5. Where the Captains Sleep
They found the Marlin.
The wreck is covered in black coral, as if the sea had decided to preserve it.
On the bridge is a skeleton in Grotto's boots.
With a key in the ribs.
The same one that washed up on the shore.
And when the cabin boy's son touched the bone, the water around him began to boil.
And from the depths a real Grotto arose - with the skin of a drowned man, but alive.
“I’ve been waiting,” he said. “Now you’re the captain.”

Epilogue. New Steering Wheel
The cabin boy's son stands on the shore.
Grot's bone is now his talisman.
The sea whispers his name.
And in the distance, Lera's lighthouse lit up again.
In red.
As a warning.
The sea is raging...
And he has a new captain.

The Sea Is Raging. Book Eight: Admiral of Darkness
Prologue. Red Waters
The Lera lighthouse burned for thirty-three nights.
And on the thirty-fourth, it went out.
And then the first ships arrived.
Black as pitch, with torn sails, but sailing against the wind. On their sides is a sign that has not been seen for a hundred years:
A tentacle wrapping around an anchor.
The fishermen prayed.
The children were crying.
And the elders took rusty weapons out of the chests.
Because the Dark Admiral is not a legend.
He arrived.

Chapter 1. The One Who Waited
The cabin boy's son (now Captain Bones) stood on the dock, clutching Grot's rib.
“We won’t be able to fight,” said the blind seer.
“And they can?” he nodded towards the shadows near the shore.
Dead people came out of the water.
But not the ones that were before.
These ones walked in formation.
These wore uniforms.
And each one had the same sign on their chest - a tentacle and an anchor.
The Fleet of the Damned has awakened.

Chapter 2. Letter from the Depths
A bottle was found in the Sea Shadow tavern (the same one where Grot left the key).
It contains a message on the skin:
"They didn't take me for my sins.
And for the ability to wait.
I spent a hundred years building a fleet.
I've been accumulating strength for a hundred years.
And now -
I'll take your children.
Just like you once took mine."
Signature:
Admiral Valrak.
The last captain of the Black Brig.

Chapter 3. Blood of the Lighthouse
Lera appeared in a dream.
Her eyes were inky and her hair was woven from seaweed.
"He's not human," she whispered. "He's the first victim."
- Whose?
- The One Who Sleeps.
And then Captain Bones realized:
The sign on the ships is not a tentacle.
This is a hand.
Hand of God.

Chapter 4. Advice from the Dead
They went down into the hold of the Marlin.
There, in the black water, floated three skeletons:
1. Grotto (finally asleep).
2. Captain Volkov (with Anna's medallion).
3. A stranger in an admiral's uniform.
"Valrak?" Captain Bones asked.
The skeleton laughed (like dry winds).
- No. The one who was before him.
- Who are you?
- The one who lost.
And he took a pearl out of his chest.
With an eye inside.

Chapter 5. The Last Choice
The pearl is broken.
Water poured out of it and formed a map.
"This is the way," said the dead admiral. "To Him."
— To the One Who Sleeps?
- No.
Then to whom?
The skeleton leaned over (the bone creaked).
— To the one who can kill God.
Captain Bones looked at his talisman.
Grot's rib cracked.
The decision was made.

Epilogue. New Fleet
When the red lighthouse lit up again, the fishermen saw:
There are two fleets on the horizon.
Black.
And blue - from ships that haven't existed for a hundred years.
And between them -
Lonely sailboat.
On its side is the inscription:
"Marlin".
The sea is raging...
And the war began.
 
The Sea Is Raging. Book Nine: The Pearl God
Prologue. Eye in the Abyss
When the first blue ship entered the black waters, the sea opened up.
From the depths rose something that had no name, a creature of mother-of-pearl and nightmare, its body shimmering like rotting pearls, and in place of a face there was a gaping emptiness filled with a myriad of tiny eyes.
The fishermen who saw this were blinded.
But one cabin boy from the Marlin (the one who was born with webbing between his fingers) did not look away.
And the eye in the depths looked back.

Chapter 1. God without a name
Captain Kosti stood on the deck, pressing Grot's split rib, and knew it wouldn't save him.
“What is this?” whispered the blind seer, who could sense the sea with her skin.
"Not a god," the Captain replied. "The shadow of a god. What's left."
The Pearl God (as the sailors called him) did not attack.
He waited.
Like I waited a hundred years.
How I waited for a thousand.
Until someone finds it.

Chapter 2. Who killed the gods?
In the hold of the blue ship (the one that sailed out of nowhere) lay bones.
Not human.
Not sea creatures.
Someone else's.
"They called themselves the Guardians of the Deep," said the stranger in the blue cloak (his voice sounded as if through the thickness of water). "They killed their gods. So that we could not kill ours."
- For what?
- Because a dead god...
He ran his hand along the wall, and the mother-of-pearl patterns formed a picture:
The sea frozen in an eternal storm.
And a shadow floating through it.
— ...becomes a weapon.

Chapter 3. Anna's Medallion
The blind seer found it in a pile of old nets - a medallion that Captain Volkov once wore.
There is no portrait inside.
Tooth.
Human.
“It’s not Anna,” she whispered. “It’s Lera.”
- How?
- She gave it to him. In exchange.
- For what?
The seer raised her face (her empty eye sockets were full of tears).
— For the right to become a key.

Chapter 4. The Key and the Door
The Pearl God approached.
His body (if it could be called a body) shimmered like the moon in an oil puddle.
“You have come,” whispered a hundred voices at once.
“I didn’t call you,” said Captain Bones.
- But she called.
A hand rose from the water – small, childish.
Lera.
"Open the door," said God. "And I will give you what you want."
- What?
- End.

Chapter 5. The Last Rite
They gathered on the deck of the Marlin - Captain Bones, the blind seer, the webbed cabin boy.
And shadows.
Grotto.
Volkova.
Anna.
“What are we going to do?” asked the cabin boy.
“That’s what we’re here for,” the Captain replied.
He picked up the medallion and threw it into the water.
The sea roared.
The Pearl God froze.
And then –
Started to fall apart.

Epilogue. New Sea
When it was all over, the fishermen found on the shore:
- Captain Kostya (alive, but with gray hair).
- Jung (his eardrums disappeared).
- And the medallion (now empty).
And in the distance...
The sea was calm.
For the first time in a hundred years.
But the elders (those who remembered) whispered:
- This is not the end.
- It's a break.
Because somewhere there, in the depths -
The door is still open.
And the sea...
The sea is raging.

The Sea Is Raging. Book Ten: Children of the Void
Prologue. Quiet Ebb
The sea retreated.
For the first time in history.
It exposed the bottom - black rocks covered with slime older than the legends themselves, rusty anchors of ships that no one remembered, and...
Door.
Enormous, made of stone, covered with writing that burned the eyes.
And in front of her -
Child.
Completely dry.
With absolutely black eyes.
He smiled (too widely) and said just two words:
- We went out.


Chapter 1. New Shores
Captain Kosti (now with graying temples and a wave-shaped scar on his neck) stood on the empty pier.
“Where are the fish?” asked the cabin boy.
“It’s gone,” the old fisherman replied. “Like everything living.”
The sea was empty.
No waves.
No sounds.
Without a soul.
And then they came – the Children of the Void.
Completely ordinary in appearance.
If you don't look into the eyes.

Chapter 2. Students without a teacher
The priest was the first to disappear.
He was found in the bell tower, with his tongue torn out and his hands folded in the shape of a door.
The second is an old cartographer.
The walls of his house were covered with one word:
"Hunger".
And then...
The children began to change.
Their skin became transparent.
Their voices merged into one.
And they repeated the same phrase as the child at the door:
- We went out.
- And we are hungry.

Chapter 3. Sand and Ink
The blind seer (the one who saw dreams about the depths) woke up screaming.
“These are not children!” she tore her clothes. “These are letters!”
- Which?
- Those on the door! They came off the stone!
She grabbed a knife and began writing on the floor, signs that brought tears of ink.
And then she whispered:
— They want to go back.
- Who?
— Those who were before the gods.
And she cut her throat.
With ink.

Chapter 4. The Last Ship
Captain Kosti followed the trail (literally - black drops led to the sea).
The Marlin lay on the sand, intact, as if it had just come off the slipway.
On deck –
Lera.
Real.
Without scales.
No trace of depth.
- Do you know what this is? - She pointed to the sea.
- Emptiness.
- No.
She ran her hand through the air, and for a moment the water returned – black, thick as ink.
- This is a draft.
- What?
- New world.

Chapter 5. Choice without Choice
The children stood on the shore.
The sea lay dead.
Lera was holding a medallion in her hands (the same one with the tooth).
"They gave me a choice," she said. "And I made it."
- Which?
— Let them in.
- Where?
Lera smiled (and in this smile there was something more ancient than fear).
- In us.
And the first child (with black eyes) stepped forward.
His skin burst.
Light poured out from the cracks.
And then -
The tide has come in.

Epilogue. New World
The fishermen woke up.
The sea was in place.
Children are normal.
And on the sand...
There was only one single object lying there.
Medallion.
Split in half.
There is emptiness inside.
But if you listen closely...
The sound of the surf could be heard from there.
The sea is raging.
Somewhere else.