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06-29-2016, 08:23 AM
Syrena
let the water take me
This is not a place that is easy to leave. The siren knows this all too well, though she learned it far too late. Oh, if she had known, she never would have come. But there’s no warning that the border of Helovia will strip away all magic (and for a siren, magic is everything). You cannot leave Helovia and gain back all that you have lost. Once you are here, everything is gone. Once you are here, you start over from the beginning.
Oh, you can leave, if you want. But why? Where else can you at least begin to earn back the things you have lost? This place may be a cruel mistress, but it offers tantalizing little prizes to keep stringing you along. Bits of magic - not even close to what she once could do, but better than nothing. Companions, with their own bits of magic. Items, some of them with magic of their own. Like the raindrop charm in her mane, that’s stained a chunk of her otherwise seal-gray coloring purple and pink. It is the only part of her that is constantly lovely.
She is interesting to look at, at least. Patches of scales cover her lower legs and underbelly. Where she should have feathers, she has fins. Her skin looks like it belongs to a seal, always just slightly wet. In the water, she changes color, and feels more like herself. But then again, she was never a creature designed for land.
The mare with the ghostly eyes and the floating head is also interesting to look at. Enough that Syrena goes over to the mare, having spent the better portion of an hour wandering the Threshold and avoiding anyone who didn’t interest her. She came here enough, but she approached less often. Most don’t interest her, though sometimes she forces herself to wander in someone’s direction just for the sheer fact that she should. Herd life is not her skill, but it offers her more than wandering Helovia ever did.
“Hello,” she says, voice melodic but without emotion. It is not unfriendly, at any rate, which is saying something for the mare. “I’m Syrena, from the Hidden Falls.” And then she falls silent, waiting for the mare with the floating head (there’s a body back there somewhere in the shadows, but it is more fun to think of it as a floating head) to speak.
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Oh, you can leave, if you want. But why? Where else can you at least begin to earn back the things you have lost? This place may be a cruel mistress, but it offers tantalizing little prizes to keep stringing you along. Bits of magic - not even close to what she once could do, but better than nothing. Companions, with their own bits of magic. Items, some of them with magic of their own. Like the raindrop charm in her mane, that’s stained a chunk of her otherwise seal-gray coloring purple and pink. It is the only part of her that is constantly lovely.
She is interesting to look at, at least. Patches of scales cover her lower legs and underbelly. Where she should have feathers, she has fins. Her skin looks like it belongs to a seal, always just slightly wet. In the water, she changes color, and feels more like herself. But then again, she was never a creature designed for land.
The mare with the ghostly eyes and the floating head is also interesting to look at. Enough that Syrena goes over to the mare, having spent the better portion of an hour wandering the Threshold and avoiding anyone who didn’t interest her. She came here enough, but she approached less often. Most don’t interest her, though sometimes she forces herself to wander in someone’s direction just for the sheer fact that she should. Herd life is not her skill, but it offers her more than wandering Helovia ever did.
“Hello,” she says, voice melodic but without emotion. It is not unfriendly, at any rate, which is saying something for the mare. “I’m Syrena, from the Hidden Falls.” And then she falls silent, waiting for the mare with the floating head (there’s a body back there somewhere in the shadows, but it is more fun to think of it as a floating head) to speak.
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