" But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."
Khalil Gibran
Far out in the ocean lies a very deep cavern that inhabits a sunken vessel. Few are the fish that dare to wonder inside the pitch-dark cave, which is also the home to some of the most peculiar sea creatures ever seen. A rare species of fish with long and sharp teeth light the cave with their blue headlamps. Sometimes, a young mermaid visits the cave and swims about carefree as though it were her playground. She often visits the cave when she is feeling blue because that is when her tail is bioluminescent and she can use it as a lantern to explore the cave. When she is happy, her tail and fingertips turn pink and when she is angry her tail burns like hot coal. The cave was the only place in the ocean where the mermaid could cool off her burning tail. Lately, she was in so much pain that only the cold rocks and the darkness of the cave could sooth her. The mermaid longed for a lifelong companion. Her loneliness grew stronger with every passing day, affecting the ocean's tides. During her saddest of times, sailors would be swallowed by the sea and would sink deep down an abyss or would be thrashed against coral reefs.
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Historia CortaThis is a modern age fairytale about an unexpected couple. She's a lonely mermaid who is just trying to find love and he's a skeleton haunted by his past. She doesn't know how to love and he thinks that he can never love again. Sometimes you just ha...
