“SHE’S NOT A BRANWEN OR ANGHARAD, SHE’S NOT A LONG ROOTED, LONG VERSED STORY OF LAKE OR HILL, SHE IS A MOVER AND A WAKER AND A SHAKER, A LOOSE-HIPPED ZANZIBAR PRIESTESS OF THE BLOWN FUSE OF THE SACRED EVERYTHING, A PROPHETIC WANDERER, EVEN IF HER MIGRATIONS TAKE CENTURIES TO COMPLETE. SHE IS A GREAT CLATTER-BASH OF GNOSTIC LIGHTNING. WHEREVER SHE IS, SHE CAN REMEMBER A PLACE BEFORE THAT. SHE HAS CHARISMA IN EVERY SETTING. “AND NOW, DUE TO A FASCINATION WITH STREET LIGHTS, SHE IS WALKING THE LANES. THEY ARE A DISAPPOINTMENT. SHE SLEEPS IN A BUS SHELTER. “IN THE MORNING HER MIND IS FULL OF FUR AND LIGHT.” When the gods have love affairs, they unfold over many centuries. A wandering deity - by turns a women, a salmon, and something else entirely that it is difficult to talk about - decides to revive her affections for the ancient Celtic god of the sea, Mannanan Mac Lir, and heads for the shoreline. But on a Welsh beach, she encounters something else: tourists. And none of them think in myth anymore. They utter static and call it language. Unimpressed, she tells an Inuit tale to refresh their minds, to loosen their imaginations. All the time, she is also sending the story as courtship to Mannanan, a story that contains a secret: could it be that this story within a story is actually the tale of their love affair? THE FIVE FATHOMS is part of the Seven Doors in an Unyielding Stone series.