Fins, Fangs and Feathers (Lesbian Stories)

Chapter 46

The purring coming from Calypso had long since become a comfort to Hecate. Mixed with the soft rumbling of the filter of her tank and the gentle sounds of the water around her, the hybrid was completely at peace.

She thought she would be more stressed, sleeping underwater, but instead she found herself just as calm and collected as the woman sleeping on her chest. Hecate raised her hand from where it was resting on Calypso's back so she could observe her own skin for any sign of pruning, thankful that the spell that granted her the ability to breathe also prevented any unwanted effects from also taking root in or on her body.

Calypso felt the movement and lack of contact causing her to shift before yawning, her bottom jaw splitting like a snake's before returning to normal. "Seriously, how do you always wake up before me?"

"I fall asleep first." Hecate answered. "I planned on going back to sleep. I just wanted to check on my skin and make sure I wasn't shriveling up like a prune."

Calypso's eyes traveled across Hecate's features where she gently touched her hand to her arm and trailed her way down before lacing her fingers through Hecate's. Her purring almost deafening, and yet still just as calming as it had always been. "You don't seem to be, though I forget that happens to people."

"How dare you not think to worry about me." Hecate scoffed.

"I figured you'd be smart enough to tell me about any limits or issues that you had." Calypso confessed. "If you needed to go above the water you would."

"I do have a curious question that's kind of biology related." Hecate noted.

"Oh?"

"If mermaids are supposed to live at the bottom of the ocean, then why do they need lungs?" Hecate asked.

Calypso went to retort, then paused a moment before chuckling. "Honestly, I think it's just dumb luck that we're amphibious."

"But I feel like that's weird. Everything about you seems designed for deep sea life, so you being able to breathe air always struck me as odd."

"Likely a gift from the God that created us." Calypso answered. "Posiedon did always favor his underwater creatures over the landwalking believers."

Hecate shivered with a smile. "Did you just insult my landwalking-ness? I'm offended."

"You should be." Calypso smiled. "But you're doing okay, having spent so much time underwater?"

"Yeah. I'm fine." Hecate nodded. "I thought it would be colder, but your heated tank is pretty dope."

"No one says dope anymore. Don't ever say that again."

"But I can talk about violating a trashcan full of glizzies and you find that attractive enough to date me? Your standards are all sorts of fucked up and I don't know if I can continue this relationship."

Calypso lifted herself a bit, leaving her hands on Hecate's hips while looking at her face with a raised eyebrow. "You're not allowed to break up with me."

"Oh? Now I'm being kept against my will?" Hecate scoffed, placing a hand over her own chest and mocking being insulted. "Of course the mermaid would drag her most precious possession down to the bottom of the ocean and keep me locked away."

Calypso pushed herself off the bed, her fins once again hiding her legs as she swam away, slowly swimming around the room while watching Hecate with a playful smile. "I've dragged many a human to the lowest reaches of the sea, keeping them for my own amusement. I'll not allow someone to leave me behind."

Hecate sat up with a grin, watching her mermaid swim around the underwater bedroom like she was experiencing a scene from one of her own games. The water was still vibrating around her from Calypso's happy and content purring, assuring the hybrid that Calypso did not think her declaration of a break up was serious in the slightest.