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Post by lorelei on Oct 21, 2009 17:27:17 GMT -6
It was mid-day, and Bellevin was quiet, the inhabitants still slumbering off the rum they'd consumed the night before, and she knew they'd remain asleep for hours yet. Lorelei snuck from the tavern quietly, wrapped in a long white robe falling to her ankles and following the feminine curvature of her form with a tie around the waist and a peak of her skin through the thin material. Her hair fell freely in fiery waves of burgundy, and her blue eyes glimmered in the sunlight as she scampered to the shore, bare feet upon the soft, white sands. They never let her out of the tavern when awake. She was not allowed near the sea, night or day, and they had no idea that despite their fears of her running off, she had nowhere else to go.
She trailed down the beach with an excitement in her heart, pulsing beneath her skin at the sight of the sunlight against the warm, blue waters. Her feet splashed against the water as she rushed to meet the waves, and when the water reached her mid-calve, she fell into its embrace gracefully, falling back and laying in the water with a blissful sigh. She felt it over her skin, every pore taking in the sweetness of the salty waters, and the sparse pockets of scales relished the drink. She tasted the salt on her lips, and her eyes looked to the sky, as her hair flowed with the currents beneath. And she lay there, each and every one of her senses captivated by the ocean's cool presence.
She watched the sun in the sky with an awe and respect, and she feared its movements, for as it fell farther and farther from its peak, it meant she would be closer and closer to returning to the tavern for the night's entertainment.
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Post by anya on Oct 21, 2009 17:39:51 GMT -6
Anya sighed, moving gracefully through the water as her mermaid form allowed her, relishing the freedom that she got. As she came closer to shore, she let the change slowly over take her body until she broke the surface, once again in her human appearance.
It was a graceful shape, one that had many of the town seeking her out for various odd requests that she knew they could handle on their own, but she was too nice to turn them away, especially since she had watched many of them grow up. It was only when they asked for her to marry them that she drew away gracefully, careful to keep her distance.
She pushed her hair off her shoulders, her frame naked as she treaded water, seeing who was there in the shores. Only seeing the girl from the tavern, she smiled, shaking her head. The siren was a beautiful creature, the mermaid would admit to that, and she did not worry about her as she did about the other townsfolk.
Emerging from the waters, she headed over to a few rocks and pulled out a loose dress, sliding it over her frame before fixing the siren with calm eyes. "Are you alright my dear?" she called out.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 21, 2009 18:49:27 GMT -6
Lorelei was stripped from her daze with the sound of a voice, and she sat up from the water hastily, eyes immediately searching for source. She spotted the woman by the rocks, and she recognized her vaguely from other occasions she'd slipped from the tavern. She'd seen her swimming, in the water, upon various occasions, spying from the rocks to avoid being seen, but so that she could see Anya in the water, moving with such beauty and fluidity, as smoothly as the water itself.
"I'm fine..." She said nervously, dropping her eyes hesitantly. She stood up slowly, holding the robe she wore close, but the purpose was lost as it was now soaked, translucent and clinging to her skin. She whipped her dripping, red locks behind her shoulder, and she froze in her stature, a slight tilt of her head in a curious gaze toward Anya. She rolled her lips uncertainly, and she averted her eyes from the woman. "...You won't tell anyone, will you?" She asked, and her questioning eyes rose back to look at Anya, blue as the sea she stood in, like a child's, they were unsure, and they had a tinge of fearful anticipation resting in the watery irises.
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Post by anya on Oct 21, 2009 19:06:54 GMT -6
Anya smiled and shook her head, laughing lightly. "Of course not. You belong with the sea, no matter how much they try to keep you from it, it shall always draw you back," she said gently, watching her as she pushed blonde hair out of her face.
If there was one thing Anya did not like about the tavern, it was that they did not let the siren come and go as she pleased, nay as she needed, and it was something the Maji would take up with the owner. Her voice had weight behind it, after all, she had seen this town rise up into the prosperous business it was.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 21, 2009 21:33:16 GMT -6
Lorelei looked down with a pleased smile at the Maji's assurance she wouldn't tell. Her ears listened, and her eyes fell to the lapping of the waves, as it drew forward over her feet, then back, in swaying motions, and she saw the woman's analogy in motion with the loss of sand from between her toes, taken back to the sea. For a moment, she envied the sand. A silly thought, but she doted on such thoughts with no regard for sensible things. She deduced, if she were to be a grain of sand, she would be at the bottom of the ocean, where she would never be taken from the sea, and instead, she would remain in water, even if it was terribly dark, it was certainly better than being a grain of sand far upon the land, always dry and burned by the sun.
Her eyes rose, and she looked upon Anya once more, despite the temptation to turn away. She liked to look at her, admiring the beautiful skin, the long hair that she imagined would look astonishing when swishing with the ocean currents, like splendid tendrils of seaweed, following water patterns. "Thank you." She finally said, with a grateful smile curving across her plump lips. She paused, and she felt her voice lost in the depths of her lungs, so ironic for that of a siren, but she finally spoke, and she gestured for Anya to come to her. "Come sit with me!" She found it came out far more excited than she'd intended and a tad loud, and she pressed her hand to her mouth in embarrassment, but her hand didn't entirely hide the awkward smile curling along the face with a glimmer of pearly teeth.
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Post by anya on Oct 21, 2009 21:54:12 GMT -6
Anya laughed lightly before nodding, a smile curving over red lips as she waded gracefully into the water, not minding that her dress was getting soaked. She pushed her hair back, sinking into the water with the siren and smiling as it curled around her. The urge to change back into a mermaid was strong, but she controlled it, knowing she would have left the siren there.
"You can call me Anya, if you don't already know my name," she said, smiling as she trailed her fingers through the water, letting it twine around her like a lover. "And I do not mind keeping a secret," she said, giving the siren a mysterious smile, her full lips quirking with mystery.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 21, 2009 22:24:36 GMT -6
Lorelei relaxed back into the fluid touch of the water when she saw Anya had heeded her request. She sighed musically in her depths, and her eyes shut softly for a brief moment of sinking underneath the water. When she opened them, Anya was beside her, and she felt a strange comfort from the woman's presence, beckoning for her muscles to loosen and mind to lose its constant awareness.
"I am Lorelei..." She said, but her eyes dwindled from Anya, and they were captivated by the horizon, the endless stretch of blue. "...You are from the sea..." She stated in a matter of fact manner, but her eyes turned to questions when they returned to Anya, and she popped the side of her head with an inquisitive brow. "...Where? And what are you?" Her curiosity was unquenchable, and she had little restraint for her questions, especially when she felt comfortable with her company. She could see Anya was from the sea. There was no question. They recognized one another, not because they'd seen each other before, but because there was something about the sea that connected them, and it lingered in the eyes. Water. Even looking completely human, Lorelei could see it, like it was in all creatures that lived away from land.
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Post by anya on Oct 21, 2009 22:44:28 GMT -6
Anya smiled gently and allowed a shift of her hands to answer for her. Her fingers grew webbing between them as they moved through the water and faint gill slits grew along her neck as she turned back to the siren. "I am a mermaid, Lorelei," she said, smiling gently as she watched the tides shift.
There was indeed that connection of the sea between all creatures of the sea, a connection that often drew them together despite insurmountable odds and the attempts of those who dwelled on land. "I am originally from Oscivien," she said, turning her attention to the siren next to her as she allowed the water to cradle her body.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 22, 2009 14:44:00 GMT -6
Lorelei watched, like a fascinated child, as the webbing grew between the Water Maji's fingers, and the gills that appeared on the smooth flesh of her neck. Her head was curiously tilted, and her eyes were wide, like saucers. She had never met a mermaid. They lived in different seas, but she had heard of them, and she'd always wondered whether they were as pretty as she and her sisters. They were.
Lorelei lifted her arm from the water, bunching back her sleeve, where patches of silvery scales lined her wrist and fore-arm, with little fins fluttering from the sides of her slender wrist. "Then, we are cousins, you and I." She asserted with an approving nod, as she languidly swished her hand through the water. Lorelei suspected this one was no regular mermaid, but she felt she had pried too much into her person, so she reverted to a different topic. "What is O...Osci..Oshi-veen like?..." She had trouble with the word, and her pronunciation was indubitably off, and she knew it was, as the mermaid had just said the word, but she'd forgotten. "...I do not know water that is not from here, or from my home. Does it feel different?"
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Post by anya on Oct 22, 2009 15:13:22 GMT -6
Anya smiled as she pulled the change back, resuming a human form once more. "It is a little different. The tides are different as well as the creatures. And Oscivien is teeming with others," she said with a calm smile as she turned those blue, blue eyes back to the siren.
"Perhaps one day I will take you there," Anya offered with a gentle smile, as a sort of peace offering. "And allow you to see for yourself. And then you can explore the other waters and become acquainted with them."
The mermaid's voice didn't have the same musical quality that the siren's did, but she still had the smooth rhythm and cadence that all sea creatures had.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 22, 2009 18:26:51 GMT -6
She watched the transformation from fish to human, taking in the way the webbing sunk back into the skin, and the gills closed. She found it fascinating, but then, she had her own little transformation for another time, and no doubt, this one had seen everything when it came to sirens. She pondered of the seas that Anya spoke of, different tides, and she wondered how they felt, did they make one drift differently? Did the currents pull the body in new, inventive ways? She didn't understand, entirely, and she supposed she just would have to experience it for herself.
She heard Anya's proposition, and she squealed with delight, somewhat sounding like a porpoise. "Yes!..." She threw her arms around Anya's neck, and she kissed the mermaid's cheek merrily, before realizing her breach of boundaries, and she backed away, with an embarrassed roll of her lips. She hoped this wasn't perceived too awkwardly, and she apologized timidly, looking to the smooth floor beneath the clear waters. "...I'm sorry."
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Post by anya on Oct 23, 2009 23:33:15 GMT -6
Anya smiled, leaning over and returning the kiss, showing she was not upset. "Do not be," she said, laughing lightly as she pushed some of her hair out of her face and pulled the remainder into a braid that she let trail down her back. "I do not mind it at all," she said with a warm smile.
She rested her hand gently on the siren's arm, showing her that she did not mind the physical contact from her. "So, Lorelei," she said, watching her with blue eyes. "Tell me about where you are from, your waters there," she prompted, searching for a conversation topic with the siren.
Anya found herself growing rather attached to the young girl, despite having known her for only a few moments. It was something that she trusted implicitly, her emotions were much like the water around them, but they never lied.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 25, 2009 1:52:05 GMT -6
Lorelei had become an awkward girl, especially as of late. Over-exposure to 'land creatures', as she thought of them but never spoke aloud, made her sensitive to 'boundaries,' that she didn't understand nor did she care to. She had forgotten what it was like to interract with a fellow creature of the sea.
The returning of her kiss upon her fleshy, full cheek led her to relax, shoulders sinking and lips smiling. Anya questioned her waters, and she fell into thought, reminiscence of the world beneath the glassy surfaces surrounding Liadi. Beautiful, deadly, bountiful and treacherous, the sea surrounding her sirenian shore had been full of plankton and coral, rich with a harvest of the sea's fertility. To creatures accustomed to life underneath the waters, it was paradise, but to humans or land animals, it was a hell, especially if they were aboard a ship. The reefs were sharp, and they stuck up from the surface or grazed right beneath, beautiful traps laid for landkind's dreams of conquering the sea. They never could, nor would they.
"It is very beautiful there... in Liadi..." She said softly, fidgeting with her wrists and eying them thoroughly. "...When you swim through the water, you swim through life itself. Even the tides are alive with little creatures, and under the water, you can hear our songs always, even more beautiful than they sound upon the land..." She stopped, and her eyes drifted to the Water Maji's, and she sighed whimsically. "...But you have been there, no doubt."
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Post by anya on Oct 25, 2009 9:06:28 GMT -6
Anya smiled as she let her fingers trail through the siren's hair in a comforting gesture, showing she was not at all upset with how Lorelei interacted with her and it was fine if she wanted to forget what she had learned on land, Anya would be more than happy to help satisfy whatever curiosities the siren had.
"I have passed through there a few times, but it is different to those who live there than those who pass through there," she pointed out gently, smiling as she watched the siren reminisce. "And there are always things that you know that I do not know," she said.
Anya sighed as she let her hand drop, fingers trailing through the water and creating mini grooves which were soon filled in by the ever shifting water. The tides began to change with the shifting of the sun and Anya sighed again, tilting her face back to look up at the bright sky.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 25, 2009 17:30:40 GMT -6
Anya's fingers through her silken, fiery threads did more than comfort the siren, they made her quiver in the spine. The touch of a woman was the like she hadn't felt in so long. When men touched her, she found herself repulsed and unreceptive, but it was quite the opposite for the same sex, even a brush against her caused her heart rate to quicken.
Lorelei grew bold, and she stood from the water, without a second thought, and she pulled her sopping wet robe from her body and tossed it back to the sands of the shore. Her naked skin glistened in the sun with droplets of water sliding down the pale skin and silvery scales, and she reached down for Anya's hand, clasping it in her slender fingers. There was no shame in the siren's eyes, confident in her natural, shapely form, unrestrained by garments. It was nothing to her. Clothing was for land creatures. "I wish to see around this Island. Come show me." She insisted, releasing Anya's hand and skipping through the water childishly as it became deeper and deeper. She paused, as the water came to her waist, and she called to Anya with a beckoning arm. "Come!" Then, in an instant, she dove into the waters and vanished from the surface.
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Post by anya on Oct 25, 2009 17:52:57 GMT -6
Anya laughed lightly, following Lorelei's example and discarding her robe as well, letting it be taken back to shore as she waded out into the waters and let the change over take her.
Her fingers grew webbed and gills grew in her neck as her legs fused into a fin, looking rather like a shark's tail than a fish's tail. Smaller fins grew out of her forearms, extending from wrist to elbow and again they looked rather like a shark than a fish.
However, Anya made it look elegant, a dark grey on top and white underneath, she cut through the waves quickly, finding the siren. She had a dorsal fin on her back, extending down from her shoulderblades to her tailbone. If anything, she would be called a thresher shark because of the elongated tail that came from her feet, allowing her to cut swiftly through the water.
Smiling, she grabbed Lorelei's hand before tugging her into deeper water, intent on showing her around the island.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 26, 2009 17:38:18 GMT -6
The waters surrounding her form changed her, and the creamy, human skin was over-run with silvery scales, running over her body, and catching the sunlight through the waves. The fins became more prominent, stretching from her wrists over her fore-arms, and over her ankles up her delightful calves. Her hair was like stagnant blood, in the water, with fluid movements of the fairly quiet water moving the threads with each gentle shift. Her beauty was only enhanced by the sea, and without even a musical note, she was still hopelessly bewitching to the eyes.
She watched Anya rush through the water, with an elegant shark's tale, and for a moment, her heart was caught with a fearful leap, by the familiar movements the Water Maji made through the water, which usually meant to swim away... fast. The fear melted by the clarity of Anya's face, and she granted her hand without struggle, allowing Anya to take her to deeper water lending her assistance with the kicking of her legs, but they were no match for Anya's long, swooping tail.
She had never seen a mermaid, but she'd heard stories before from sailors, and from those stories, Anya was truly unique, and she wondered if other mer-creatures had similar blends. Her mind raced through the sea creatures she'd seen, and she imagined quietly, Anya's form with those attached instead, just to see if they would fit. None of them did, and she realized that Anya's form was the most beautiful, terrifyingly so.
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Post by anya on Oct 26, 2009 22:01:53 GMT -6
Anya smiled, stopping soon and pulling Lorelei into the tides, her blonde hair moving around her as the water moved them along, more or less touring the island. She would occasionally point out things to the siren or call over smaller creatures, usually small schools of fish to dance around her and let the siren observe and explore.
She hovered in the water, fanning her hands out so she could stay in one place while they explored, taking her down to the coral reefs surrounding the area and calling out to the different creatures. Most of the sea creatures here were happy to see the Water Maji and obliged, coming out to swim around the pair, despite Anya's half shark appearance.
Anya was a gentle soul and despite the often times fearsome appearance of the shark, she knew they meant no harm. They had no hand with which to explore, only mouths and that often times they could not quite distinguish the difference between humans and animals when coming from beneath. They were also what kept the oceans clean, picking off the dead and dying and keeping the populations stable.
Turning so she was once again in the tides, she took Lorelei's hand again and tugged her out into deeper waters, farther from the coast where there were far more reefs deeper down and more creatures for her to explore.
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Post by lorelei on Oct 30, 2009 23:42:43 GMT -6
Lorelei watched with a child-like fascination, her eyes recognizing things similar to her home and awing at the things she found to be completely foreign. The colors, the taste of the water, the way it swished over her body with movement, all was different, yet the same, and it thrilled her. She had never experienced waters other than those of Liadi, and she clutched Anya's hand tightly, keeping close to Anya, with slow movements of her legs, a tinge of uncertainty in her fingers, like a child clinging to mother's hand.
As they moved to deeper waters, she watched the native inhabitants shift, and the colors of the reefs shift to beautiful blues and greens, like little cities of bustling townspeople, except fish, rather than land dwellers. She grew braver, and she released Anya's hand confidently, venturing off on her own to visit with the various sea creatures. She found a puffer fish, a beautiful beige in color, with dark brown markings and flat spikes. She prodded him curiously, and he puffed into a ball with a face no different than that of an upset cat. She giggled gleefully at the sight, and it made her think a moment, and a thought came of how to enhance her fun. Sirens were silly creatures, really, and Lorelei was no exception. She whisked through the reefs and channels with ease and grace, and in an instant, she slipped from Anya's line of vision, taking to hiding in a deeper crevice, where an eel peaked its head from out of the rocks.
She looked the eel with a stifled giggle, and she placed her finger to her mouth, and had they been on land, it would have been accompanied by a hushing sound; however, she found that her 'shhhh' did nothing more than release a few sparse bubbles.
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