A Nice Lie

A Nice Lie

"My story? Well, my mother always said to not swim near the shores, and I never listened to her. So then, one day, I got trapped inside a fishing net. It was my love's. When he pulled me out, he was surprised, and same was with me. He was the first human I had ever seen. He got me out of the net, then carried me. He was warm though, welp, then he left me me in the water. We talked and talked, and slowly I started to love him in a whole different way. It was like - it was like something was going on between us, and then I fell in love with him. Whenever he sailed off in his ship, I would wave at him, and sometimes I saw his friends, but they never saw me, nor my love told them anything about me. Yeah, he would always see me with that wooden thing of his (he means telescope), he told me he could see far away from it. But then, he also fell in love with me. We became lovers of eachother. But, one day we had to break ties, since I knew at one side that the human world was cruel, not everyone there was good. My sister called me, and I had to go. But before going, he gave me one of his earing, as a memory of him, and after that, I swam away. I never met him after that. Never. It has been just eight days, but it hurts a lot to me. Alot.." ended the sad merman with his sad story.

Again, a silence spread in the environment. The queen got up, going near the shelf of books near the bed. She pushes one of the books, revealing a secret door behind.

"Follow me." ordered the queen, before going inside the door.

The merman follows her inside the door. It revealed a small-lab type place, where numerous portions and herbs weer available. The queen mermaid swam near a particular portion, which was of cyan and colour, before turning.

"This is a special portion, which can turn merperson into human, and human into merperson. I made it just few days ago. I had made this the first time when I met the king, and it still does works. The work I was talking about was you to go to the human world, on the shores, and find that king. Tell him that I am still here, underwater, waiting. During that, you can meet your lover too." finished the queen. Shakes thought, then answered, "I will do this. When should we start?" "I will give you some information, since I know more than you. You will go tomorrow. Is that okay with you?" "Yes, queen. " came the response from the merman, who had now hopes to meet his lover again.

Then he left after a few hours with his mother. When they reached, she asked him what the queen said, but he didn't tell everything. He just told her that the queen was giving him a mission to start from tomorrow. And they took some tests. He said that he had to go to the neighbouring kingdoms to get some information. Yeah, a nice lie.