Snippets

fishtails

The high pitch call of the whale had Merralyn and myself stop in mid grab. We stilled and waited as the call went wide across our ocean floor, the vibrations drifting over my tail making me shiver. I was just about to relax when the deep tone hit on the last note and it took everything in me not to sigh loudly. 

The call was for all resounding mermaids to attend the hall now. To have the call for all of us, meant it was more then just a mare meeting of the elders. 

I looked to the box of seahorses and rubbed my face in frustration. "In the name of Atlantis why do they want us now?" 

Merralyn sighed and shrugged her shoulders at me "at this rate we're not going to get anything done. This is the third time this week they have interrupted us in work" 

"Its not as if this is something we can just leave though. Tomorrow evening our opening closes and we'll have to wait another twenty years" 

We look at the box again, it contained only five young. It wasn't even enough to work one female's timing. With a heavy aura we left the field and swam back towards the channel. 

As we dived in to the darkening depths I breathed as much as I could to try and calm the anger in me. If the queen caught a bubble of my anger she'd call me out on it and then in front of the dwindling community repent me for my anger. 

"Mermaid' s are gentle beings of the ocean. We are peaceful and offer hope to all who believes. We are not anger filled sirens who murder anything in a fishtail radius of us... Get your scales in order young one and act accordingly" 

Yeah cause my actions are the cause of us being a pod of no larger then 50. 

I stop at the cave entrance and breathe. I was not going to be subjected to her rant today. I am calm. 

I am calm.

Acting calmer then I felt I followed Merralyn in to the dark cave and swam through a crevice. Light spilled in at the end and entering the light I wasn't surprised at the small gathering below me. I took my place on the ledge as always and waited, leaning back against the rough wall.

I wasn't going to get near the queen tonight. Not while I was feeling like this.

I swayed my tail back and forth as the hall below filled with what was left of our pure female community. It was difficult to watch the elders die knowing that hardly enough young would survive the early days of life. We had barely ten young to tend too.

I was a hundred and eighty this mating season and would most likely be able to go to the surface. If there were enough coral gems to go around.

The world was dying, as much as the humans tried to help those who weren't doing anything outweighed them and it was getting bad for us. Our oceans were dying, we were losing fish and corals because of the humans life.

Eventually we were going to die out.

That was the hardest part to accept. That mermaid wouldn't exist anymore.