"Morlo stepped forward eagerly, but Ffion drew back, unsure. The Selkie mother took her son's face gently in her hands and blew the salt breath of the sea three times into his mouth and nose. Then she led him down beneath the waves.

Fear gripped Morlo as they sank into the depths. Icy water cut through him and his lungs felt that they would burst from the shock as he gasped for breath."

 

Ffion was named for the land, the home of her father ( Ffion is Welsh for foxglove) but Morlo was called after his mother's people, for Morlo means seal in Welsh.

He loves the sea and spends his time fishing with his father and learning to play the fiddle so that he can call the people of the sea with his music.

Try to imagine how he feels as he sinks beneath the waves into the world of his mother, plunging down beneath the roof of the sea into a world of kelp forests where the light flickers and dances and fish fly past like birds, and the sound of the great whales can be heard calling in the far, far distance.

 

 

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