ACOC - Prologue - Ko

The prologue for the first book in the Clockwork series (A Crown of Copper) is told through the POV of Ko, an elderly drifter and resident of the floating city of Driftwood.

Location
The ancient floating city of Driftwood

Characters
Introducing Main Characters Supporting Characters Deaths
 * Ko
 * Ty
 * Ga
 * Ky
 * Nerin
 * King Orock
 * Ko
 * Ky
 * King Orock
 * Ty
 * Ga
 * Nerin
 * Ko

Quotes
''"Are you afraid? Embrace the wind and wet my brother, we are drifters after all." '' - Ga to Ty

"He is no monster, but your brother." - Ko to Ga, regarding Ky

"I've heard a Mermaid's kiss will make a man live forever?" - Ko to Nerin

"In desperate times I must call upon my darkest contacts to do my toughest bidding. And I am now desperate enough to call upon someone I dispise as much as you." - Orock to Ky

Plot
While fishing with two of his sons, Ty and Ga, Ko discovers a young merman trapped in one of their fishing traps. Ko takes pity on the boy and adopts him as a son. After many years living peacefully together Ko and Ky are visited first by the beautiful mermaid Nerin who seduces Ko, and then the powerful Ocean King Orock who asks Ky to help him by rescuing his mermaid daughter (Nerissa) who had been taken ashore by the Daerosi people. And in return he promises to grant Ky permission to return to Orock's underwater realm (which Ky had been banished from because of an unknown crime). Also Orock threatens that if Ky doesn't return his daughter to him by the 'end of the second winter', he would send a great wave to destroy the continent of Daeroes, as punishment for taking his daughter. After Ky and Orock leave Ko is once again seduced by the gorgeous mermaid Nerin who tempts him beneath the waves where he drowns.