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"Thank you human." She nods.
I nod in return, not quite sure what to say. Still incredibly confused by the whole situation.
She looks down at my sweats again.
"That is where the human male appendage lies, am I correct?" She asks...
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I am always careful.
Well, perhaps that's a lie.
If I was really careful, I wouldn't have found myself in strange waters, swept up in an odd shift in the ocean. Normally I would sense any change in the current and switch course. But this time, a shiny pearl caught my eye.
I had a soft spot for odd, shiny things.
I have a collection of odds and ends stored in my underwater cave.
Okay, so maybe that was another lie.
I have a collection of odds and ends stored in caves scattered through the sea.
I couldn't bear to part with my little treasures, so I left them tucked away in safe spaces. But the weather shifts, and I follow the current, letting it take me where it may.
When you've lived most of your life in solitude, drifting with the soft lull of the ocean tides brings a sense of comfort. Things and objects bring happiness, but it's always fleeting. When you have no one, spaces you may have once called home become less so as every day passes. The one blinding light of excitement at something new dims until all that remains is a dull ache of anticipation for what comes next.
I dove too deep.
Normally I would stop myself, but something about this particular pearl twinkled in my eyes. I never saw a pearl such as this, and I felt the urge, no, the need to investigate.
So I did.
I swam deeper than I have swum before, ignoring the ache in my lungs. It was nothing but a dull ache, I knew I could last hours underwater without needing to break the surface.
Granted, that was my first mistake.
But I'm a stubborn little fuck.
If I want something, I get it.
Who else will?
There is only me.
Yet the ocean is as vast as it is deep.
It wasn't until my lungs began to burn that I realized I had been swimming too long, venturing too deep. I was accustomed to the darkness that shrouded the deep depths, but this was a new kind of deep.
I scratched at my throat, looking forlornly at the twinkle in the sand, before making my way back up.
I was too focused on gaining another gasp of oxygen that I didn't notice the giant sea creature barreling my way.
Not until I was hit from the side and spun into an underwater current.
Everything went dark.
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