Deep water
By: Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman
Contributors: Sherman, Josepha
Series: Buffy, the vampire slayer; Buffy, the vampire slayer (Series)
Publisher: Pocket Pulse
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780671039196
Subjects: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Vampires -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)
Description: Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage -- a selkie, a shape-shifting seal girl who won't be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her magickal coat. However, though "Ariel," as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can't quite shake her innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing. Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids -- with one important and fatal difference. As if things weren't complicated enough...
Notes: "An original novel based on the hit TV series created by Joss Whelan."