"Please let go of my son. He did nothing wrong. Please have mercy on him. Please... He's my only child, please". The poor old mermaid begged and cried as she watched her child being put into the swirl pool which no one knows where it led to.
She screamed as she saw her son being carried away by the strong whirls of the pool.
Her screams made me cling to the tail of my mother. For fear of being the next person.
Mother held my hand and took me home when she saw how uncomfortable it was for me to watch someone being exiled.
When we got home, mum used the seaweeds to cover our entrance so that our home wouldn't be randomly seen by the passers-by.
"Mummy, what did that merman do?" I asked her.
"He was caught beyond The reef". She answered me.
"Was it that bad to be caught beyond the reef?" I asked her.
"It's a taboo my son. We are not to be seen beyond the reef. And you know why". She replied before she headed to cook something for us.
She was right. I knew why.
We were a very special specie found deep in the oceans.
Each kingdom has their own culture and different gifts.
In the kingdom of Pasipheras , which happened to be where I was born, we all had the special gift of healing. We could heal just about any disease no matter how bad it was. The humans up there, prayed to our waters to bring healing to one of them. All we needed to do was swim up and touch the sick person they had put in the boat.
We were once friends with the humans until one day something went wrong.
The princess had a fall out with her father and left the ocean. She swam out of the ocean and somehow she became the second wife of the king. But humans are always known for their greed and deep wickedness. Somehow, the princess died and the king was furious about it. According to history, it was said that the princess tail was used to make a beautiful gown for the then Queen of the humans. That infuriated our king the more and he drowned the whole city with water.
Since then he made a rule that if any of us are seen beyond the reef, we wouldn't be spared. And that rule is still standing till now.
Hello,my name is Alibatear and this is my world. A world which is a mystery to even the other merpeople in other oceans. We live in the deepest part of the ocean where even the divers know nothing about.
Even our tails differ from other merpeople tails. Our tails were always mixed colours and it always shines in the dark. Maybe that's why we were always a hunted specie.
Even with everything happening my wish has always been; visit the human world. Live there for a while. But I do know I have no chance at all to do that except if I were to dare the King.
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