'I will not let thee go save thou makest me a promise that if I do, you will give me your lights and return all my belongings.'
'Wilt thou in very truth let me go, if I promise thee this?' cried the Mermaid.
'In very truth I will let thee go,' said the young Fisherman.
So she made him the promise he desired, and swore it by the oath of the Sea-folk. She removed the watch dangling from her neck and returned the wedding ring. He loosened the nets from about him and grabbed her hands. The mermaid transferred her bioluminescence over to her through beams of lights that circulated like waves of current from her body to his. The mermaid then swam away trembling like a leaf in the water. She could no longer illuminate her way in the depths of the sea, and she could no longer mimic her surrounding environment to hide from predators. The skeleton had taken her essence and without it she was merely a blind and defenseless fish in the water.
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Short StoryThis 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...
