Saphira agrees to stay with him. He is kind and ½ mer. Time passes and she gives birth to a girl at the shore of the sea. She tells him that she will stay until the baby can sing the songs of the sea. Then she must return if she is to stay strong and well.
Saphira has baby girl with turquoise eyes. Saphira sings to her the songs of the sea, especially the one that will turn her baby legs into a tail. At the dark of the moon each month she swims with her daughter, mer mother and child in the darkness, singing to the creatures of the sea.
Prince wants to know if she will visit him and watch over her daughter. She tells him to build an underground grotto in the cave with a tunnel to the castle. She will meet him there on the new moon.
He goes deep in to the castle to begin this project and finds a door in the part of the dungeon that he had always been forbidden to enter. He remembers that his father left him a key in a case, a key he was told to guard with his life. He rushes upstairs, finds the key and returns. The key opens the door. Behind it is a tunnel, and at the end is a grotto. He realizes that his father must have built this, and that his mother must have been mer.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
walking on the beach
Saphira and the prince are walking along the shore. He is telling her about trying to protect the whales and how difficult this is for him. The custom of herding and killing sea creatures runs deep and is difficult to change. He is a poor prince, and has few resources, but he will not give into allowing killing in his cove.
Saphira looks at him and sees turquoise flecks in his eyes . He is half mer, a secret he does not know. Mermaids can only stay on land for a certain amount of time, or they start to age and lose the ability to return to the sea. His mother had to leave him when he was young.
But she did not leave him without protection. His nanny was ½ mer, and the prince’s mother recognized this. The nanny was a young women at the time, and learned Mer secrets, including the songs of the sea, from the prince’s mother. When she chooses, she can become a mer and disappear into the sea. But she can never return. She has not left, and watches Saphira closely.
Saphira looks at him and sees turquoise flecks in his eyes . He is half mer, a secret he does not know. Mermaids can only stay on land for a certain amount of time, or they start to age and lose the ability to return to the sea. His mother had to leave him when he was young.
But she did not leave him without protection. His nanny was ½ mer, and the prince’s mother recognized this. The nanny was a young women at the time, and learned Mer secrets, including the songs of the sea, from the prince’s mother. When she chooses, she can become a mer and disappear into the sea. But she can never return. She has not left, and watches Saphira closely.
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