Climbing higher past the shipwreck, Auraelish and Eliysiah now find themselves amongst a group of others heading up to the bright region for various reasons. While there are others heading downward in a uniform manor, to avoid blocking the younger ones heading upward. The older ones heading back down are all obviously older by the size, scars, still healing wounds, various markings and trinkets awarded to them by some as yet untold to Auraelish.
As the climb continued, some stopped or even turned back having met their limit or objective or even having realized something was left behind that they should bring, that was common. most eclipsa climbing sky word would turn back a few times before finally getting to bright regions never mind the sky itself. As sea creatures it makes sense that eclipsa would have problems above water, but the reality is that the region just below the surface is more troublesome to eclipsa. Light focused by the water and heat to dangerous levels to many creatures of the sea.
Apparently these bright regions are rare also as other creatures who can swim both the depths and surface with ease have no problems out at sea, but here in this bright region as it''s called by the eclipsa no sea creature can safely traverse without first being strong enough or having some protection against the light and heat present in the waters of the bright region.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.
Eclipsa grow strong rather quickly as they grow and change compared to to other creatures of the sea, even surface dwellers know not to make themselves enemies of eclipsa. That may be part do to the fact that only the stronger eclipsa capable of breaching the bright regions into the surface world are able to go and meet these surface dwellers. Down near the hatcheries and such any surface dweller could harvest masses of the young, if they ever got to those areas.
The hatcheries of course are protected by layers of defenses; above, below, and around. eclipsa and other creatures all protecting the young of themselves and others knowingly or instinctively. Most creatures of the sea are not self aware enough to communicate with others. The eclipsa, some sharks and some whales are able to talk to each other, though they rarely have any reason to do so. Most don''t realize that whales spend a lot of their otherwise unoccupied time playing with falling shipwrecks and the like, breaking them up or moving them away from the hatcheries and the like. The under sea temples have similar protections, and magical barriers are also employed. Of course each tribe has its own nexus that maintains these barriers around the hatcheries and such, illuminari tribe calls theirs the fermentis nexus.
The fermentis nexus often operates convergence and arrays with other nexus to protect certain things, such as the shipwrecks and ruins to be explored, or to protect military objectives, and even experimentation with other purposes for the same ferment barriers as the ilumari tribe eclipsa call their specific variation of magical barrier.