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Many days passed, and I decided it silly to wallow in my misery forever. After all, how would I break that wretched creature's spell if I stayed where I was? So, I ventured out of my beach-side cave. When I emerged, I found real humans (and even other people who couldn't possibly be human) out on the beach. Many were kind, and others weren't. I quickly learned to stay away from the ones who weren't so nice. I sang for the kind ones and befriended some. Wandering among them, I found renewed joy in their acceptance of me. So, I spent my mornings singing to the seas and my new friends. Somehow, it always seemed to be my music that brought the people to me, whether they were human or not.
The days turned to weeks, and I thought to set up a shop just inside my cave's entrance. In my shop, I sold a lot of the things that I often found on the beach after all the other people left it in the evenings. And I was never disappointed in their eagerness to buy some of the things I had.
One day, my best friend among the humans, Sunishia, showed me how much she liked my friendship by giving me a picture she'd made of me. In the picture, I was wearing clothes I knew that I would never find out on the beach. I loved the picture so much that I knew I had to find a means to get the items I saw in it (as well as some things to perhaps improve it). By the time the humans' New Year had begun, I'd earned enough to buy myself a Pearl Necklace.
Still more months passed as I continued work in my shop and tended to my friendships. One day when I was feeling rather homesick, I dove off of a small cliff farther along the narrow beach in front of my cave. No sooner had I hit the water than I felt an odd tingle along my legs. I raced to the surface in fright. Gasping for air, I looked down through the water to find that at long last I had my tail back. I was so happy because, all the other times I'd gone for a swim, that had never happened.
I wondered if I could get back to my beach-side cave. So I swam along the beach and tried. As I neared the shore, my tail vanished again. Joyful, I ran into my cave, wrote a quick note telling where I'd gone, and pinned a four-leaf clover to my favorite top. The top had been one I'd found on the beach, but I loved it all the same. When I'd found the clover, now pinned to me, I'd decided then that I would bring it back to my father to let him know that I'd thought of him.
So it was, that with a fierce determinaton and love for all I'd missed, I plunged again into the water with my gift pinned over my heart. And happy to be returning to my true home....
 Princess_Oceanna · Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 11:59pm · 1 Comments |
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