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Cyn adjusted a dial on his dash, then leaned back in his chair. Much better, the old station had been playing too many commercials anyways. He didn't care that tuning into a radio station while drifting off the coast of the Cein Isles was completely impossible. He'd spent enough time fiddling with the system on his previous outings, this time he just wanted to sit back and relax. The songs and commercials where being pulled off a pre-made play list, the DJ's voice was being generated by the computer, word by word. The delivery was almost too stale and cold to be human, the static could almost be predicted, but it would have to do for now.

Cyn glanced over at the computer screens. They where supposed to be tracking for any moving objects around the size of a small child, to a large, fully grown man. Much of the e-mail he received from Chane contained information of great interest. Centaurs, Harpies, Minotaur, even Naga.... the beasts of human myth... how many of them actually existed on this strange set if Islands? How much of human mythology had happened, not just as an exaggeration of an already great story, but as cold, hard, fact though and though? It wasn't imperative that he know these things, but ever since finding the young Chane during his first trip to the Isles he'd been enthralled.

He stared out over the open seas. Nothing, "Common, Nessie, where are 'ya girl..."

Something broke the surface of the water then submerged again. Cyn looked immediately to his monitor, Nothing. Any recent activity? Nothing. He looked out to sea again... Nothing. "Nessie?" He looked straight down into the water and something moved. "Oh. s**t."

He moved back into the shelter of the cabin and turned on the underwater camera. There it was. He watched as it reached out and touched the hull of his boat, first with only one finger, then his whole hand , then the other. Cyn looked up at the monitor searching for movement... still nothing.... how many times had he neglected turning on the camera? How many times might this moment have played out before, without his even realizing?

He looked back to the video feed, a second larger creature had joined the first. They where humanoid, no doubts there. Could these be some of the creatures Chane had told him about? The larger one pressed both hands and a shoulder to the underside of Cyn's boat. Then with a few strong swishes of it's tail it pushed up. He felt the boat move slightly up wards. The beast set it's shoulder against the hull a second time, it was trying again.

Cyn's hand shook slightly as he reached for the key to start the boat. At the first roar of the engine both creatures dove back to the depths of the ocean. But Cyn didn't stick around, considering the creature had nothing to push against, and no momentum, it had moved the boat with incredible force. And whatever he was, Cyn was not crazy enough to hang around and test his odds against THAT.

The radio switched to commercials.