Season of the witch

Kalypso Meeri - Down here

Kalypso watched over head as a heavy boat sagged down into the water, she squinted her big yellow eyes to see if anything fell off of it into the harsh waters of the black lake. Her mossy tendrils floated around her head she pushed them down in a fruitless attempt. Kalypso groaned and rolled her eyes a bit. She swished her tail away from the boat and swam down further, she'd just return later to see if they'd discarded anything into her lake. She really hated people invading her space but atleast with the new school year comes her friend on land. A strange girl named Luna Lovegood, Kalypso didnt mind that Luna was strange, Kalypso was strange as well. Luna also read her books so that was a plus. Kalypso hated being in the black lake, she wanted more than anything to find a spell that let her go to Hogwarts, and not have a tail while doing it. Kalypso swam down to the bottom of the black lake and saw something shiny at the bottom, this was the main reason she came down here, everything that came from up there, that was heavy enough made its way down here. She hummed a bit glancing around to make sure no one was watching before brushing away the fine sand she picked up a fine gold necklace with a large ruby pendant at the end of it, she smiled and laid it on a dull brown rock covered with algae, she glanced up, she could barely see the sky the wide plains of mud soared on for what seemed like miles. A whole world just for the merpeople and other residents of the black lake. Why did she want more, she's already been to the edges and back, over and over again dozens of times. Every time she brought up trying to find a spell, and incantation, a potion, anything, she was shut down by her family. She just felt trapped, and to be honest afraid for what the future would hold, she was afraid her parents would try to arrange a marriage. Kalypso didnt want that, but it's not like she could just leave. She picked up the gold necklace again and twirled it around in her fingers, it floated up and went down slowly, held by the water. Kalypso set it down on the rock again and brushed away more sand with her tail trying uncover more, she brushed away more and more sand till a top of a strange curve chest emerged. The top of the chest was rough "this looks old, the wood should be rotting by now" She thought glimpsing down at it before bending over and ripping it out of the sand, she set it down on the rock next to the shiny necklace. Bubbles floated around the strange box, that was weird to say the least, that meant it would have had air in it. Without thinking Kalypso grabbed the necklace and the strange chest, she swam to the middle of the lake and hauled it onto a rock sticking up into the air and pushed herself onto it as well to open the chest. Her green webbed fingers worked carefully to unlatch the chest and once she got it undone she opened it slowly. A book, a few bottles with unrecognizable substance in them, a heavy yet small velvety bag that clunked when she took it out of the chest and set it on the rock, and an empty box with the shape of a necklace in it. She furrowed the area where her brows should've been if she was human. Kalypso shook her hands to get the access water off of them and slide the golden necklace into the empty box. A perfect fit. "But if the box was airtight, how did the necklace escape from its velvety prison?" Kalypso glared down at it confused, someone must had place it here purposefully. She couldnt wrap her head around why someone would do it, she stated to open the book, but looked in disbelief and disappointment as it was in one of the human languages, she couldnt read this, merpeople would carve lines into rocks to leave messages, these letters were too much. A gurgled groan escaped Kalypso's wide mouth, she'd just have to get Luna to teach her how to read. The potions labels were in the same human writing as well, she meticulously uncorked one and took a slight sniff, it smelled like how the grass smelt on a dewy summer morning. That was Kalypso's favorite smell, how odd. She resealed it and grabbed the other one, the other one was thick and lumpy and had a revolting smell that she couldnt quite put her finger on but she immediately jerked her head away immediately disgusted and recapped it. The sun was already almost set and Kalypso moved her wide yellow eyes to the moon, equally wide and yellow and realized she had to be to her cave with her family soon, she shut the heavy strange chest and kicked her tail and flopped back into the water ungracefully and started on her swim back home, down here.