title: Lake and Sea Monsters (Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena)
author:  Linda S. Godfrey 
description: Linda S. Godfrey worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for The Week, a county newspaper published in Delavan, Wisconsin, for 10 years. She won National Newspaper Association first-place awards for feature stories in 1996, 1998, and 2000. She is the author of The Beast of Bray Road and Hunting the American Werewolf, as well as two volumes in the Barnes &amp; Noble "Weird" series: Weird Wisconsin (coauthored with Richard D. Hendricks) and Weird Michigan. She also wrote Mythical Creatures and Werewolves in Chelsea House's Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena series. Godfrey has appeared on many national television and radio programs as an expert on anomalous creatures. She is also an illustrator and artist, and maintains a Web site on werewolf sightings and news. Godfrey lives in rural southeastern Wisconsin.
zlib_text: **Ikiryoh**
  
  Liz Williams
  
  The author's poignant new story is set in the same universe as her novel,
  Banner of Souls, which was published by Bantam Spectra in 2004.
  
  Every evening, the kappa would lead the child down the steps of the water-
  temple to the edges of the lake. The child seemed to like it there, although
  since she so rarely spoke, it was difficult to tell. But it was one of the few
  times that the child went with the kappa willingly, without the fits of silent
  shaking, or whimpering hysteria, and the kappa took this for a good sign.
  
  On the final step, where the water lapped against the worn stone, the child
  would stand staring across the lake until the kappa gently drew her down to
  sit on what remained of the wall. Then they would both watch the slow ripple
  of the water, disturbed only by the wake left by carp, or one of the big
  turtles that lived in the depths and only occasionally surfaced. Legend said
  that they could speak. Sometimes the kappa thought that she detected t