Cities Of The Shifters ( Book Cover Done And Credit Goes To @MeowSniper Thanks)

Trying to remember Issabelle Lancaster's Story ( will be cont'd)

neo looked at the two. noting one was a ver tall blind man. the other was a sweet and polite young woman. he sat down near both of them when they said he could join them. "thank you. i am new in these lands. i am hoping to find my adopted mother and some old friends. they werent where they had been last." he smiled more. "guess my first comment sounded strange. i am a nature nymph. i can hear and talk to the pkantlife of nature. it is my gift and my curse." he smiled at them warmly. "are u both liking this land." his gaze kept glancing to niki. she was really pretty and had this air of mystery to her. Niki smiled at the new guy noticing that he was kinda cute, but she didn't pay attention to that anymore. It had been a long time since she saw anyone that way, since the one guy broke her heart.

"I have noticed that many people are traveling all over. From what I have seen I do enjoy the area. It is very quit and relaxing." Niki said with a smile.

Niki listened to to what Neo said about himself, he could listen to nature and speak with them. They were some what similar in that aspect because she spoke with the sea and its creatures.

"Why would you call it a curse, I thought it would be interesting to talk to things above the ground. I am a mermaid so I can speak to things in the sea." Zeros nodded his head. "Indeed. She is very right. There is lots of people traveling around. To and from different places. Though I wonder if it is always this quiet or if it just most of the time. There is no such thing as a true utopia. Yet sometimes you can come quite close to one." He said with a smile. Leaning back. He too was curious as to why Neo call his ability a gift and a curse. "Yes. Why do you call it a curse?" He asked in puzzlement. neo looked at her with a smile. "a mermaid? wow. so the stories about the beauty of the mermaids are true. you are the first mermaid i have ever met. you are very beautiful." he smiled warmly. flushing a bit at his somewhat bold andnstraight forward comment. "it is an honor to meet you niki." hr looked at her. "creatures of the sea they have times they are quiet. certain plants such as grass never shut up and are always complaining about people walking on them all the time. things like that." he flushed a bit "i do have one skill." he saidmwith a smile. "i can speak with the voice of nature and coax a seed into a flower or a wilted one back to life. here i will show you."

he pulled out a seed and held it in the with his palm flat out and the seed resting in the middle of it. he began speaking in the voice of nature. though to those who couldnt speak it it would sound like flawless, pure, serene, beautiful and angelic singing. the seed began to glow with a yellowish white light and as he continued to speak to it began to change and slowly go through the process of becoming a flower first a tiny sprout. the sprout grew bigger and longer until it formed a bud. the bud grew until it began to slowly blossom until the glowing flower was completely formed. the glowing went away as did the singing.

neo blushed, smiled, and held out the daisy to niki. "a gift of friendship for you niki." he looked to zeros perplexed. "i must apologize. all i have to give you is this smooth stone i picked up on my journeys." he handed them both his friendship gifts. Niki could not help but blush when he called her beautiful. Of course Zeros had already told her this and so had Mist but for some reason hearing it from Neo it felt different. Maybe because Niki had felt something with this guy she had not felt with anyone else.

"I will have to take you word for it. Everyone can see it but me." Niki said as she shyly looked at the ground.

Niki watched him make a flower appear and it was beautiful to her, it was her favorite flower and color. She took the flower from him and she placed it in her hair. She just hoped it would stay alive for awhile.

Niki leaned over and hugged Neo and gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Thank you, no one has given me anything like this before." Niki said with a blush

She was glad that he had given something to Zeros too and it looked like one of those smooth rocks that she could only find is certain parts of the sea's and she wondered how Neo came across it. Zeros listened to the beautiful sounding "music" that was coming from the nymph's lips. For some reason he had the feeling it wasn't really music. Yet...he wasn't sure what it could be then. Still...it was beautiful to listen to. He smelled the new type of flower soon as it was fully formed. Smiling a bit as he then blindly sought out the offered gift. Taking it from Neo when he found his hand. "Thank you...I will treasure it." He said with a soft smile. Feeling over the stone. "It is so smooth. Niki...tell me what it looks like...please?" He said with a warm smile. He could tell it was smooth. It had the faint scent of the ocean. He wasn't sure why. He could use this as a stress reliever. It was smooth enough so all he had to do was rub it with his thumb and it would most likely relax him. neo hugged her back and blushed when she kissed his cheek. he smiled a bit then let her go. "oh. the way the flower went from seed to flower made it so it will never wilt and never die. it is an after effect caused by the voice of nature thing and my being a nature nymph." hr hoped that would be good news to her, Niki looked at the stone that Zeros was handed,she sat next to him and took it from his hand.

"Well for starters it is very smooth, with a black and white marble look to it. It is rather lovely." Niki held it in her hands and closed her eyes getting a better feeling from the stone.

"Unless I am mistaken this as come directly from the ocean." Niki said as she looked towards Neo for conformation.

After Niki handed the stone back to Zeros she placed the flower in her hair, "I can't really sing above the water, but under it is rather beautiful."

Looking at Neo she touched the flower in her hair, "Neo, will the flower stay fresh if I swim with it in my hair?"