The Siren of the Titanic

Chapter 41: Calder?

A servant had led us to our rooms for the night. The three rooms were all connected to the same hallway and were all nearby. My room was beautiful. The walls were painted like a galaxy, with planets and stars. The bed was round with galaxy style bedding. The ceiling was painted in a deep midnight blue, which didn't look like much until you turned off the lights. The main electric light was in the shape of a sun, and when you turned it off a projector came on. The projector shined beautiful stars onto the ceiling and looked as if you were sleeping outside. It was peaceful.

I was knocked out of my reverie by a knock at the door. I opened it to see Talon a smile covering his obvious worry.

"What's up Talon?" I moved to the side allowing him to come inside.

"Sorry for disturbing you brother." He sat on my bed, rubbing his face. "I was just worried about you."

"I'm alright. I would've used my magic but after spending all that time on land, my magic's quite drained. How about yours?" I sat next to him, rubbing soothing circles into his back.

"I'm running low too. It was smart to stay the night. I'm sorry if I seem strange. I've never been so far from home is all."

"We've been through a lot lately, huh? I mean, we met our third, met the High King, found my grandchildren, drove across the entirety of the U.S., met your old friend, and now we are here in the Pacific Castle. Not to mention we have a huge battle coming up, we needed the rest." I smiled at him.

He smiled slightly before sighing. "Frost I had a vision. Not like Sai's but more of a feeling." He looked me in the eyes, worry, fear, and sadness coloring them. "Frost, we aren't going to come out of this unscathed. I have this gut feeling that one of us isn't going to come out of this at all." He was shaking. Terror racking through his body.

"Talon look at me." I grabbed him by the chin, forcing his heterochromia eyes to lock onto mine. "We will come out of this together. I swear it to you, do you think I'd lie to you." I smiled and he followed suit with a slight chuckle.

"I suppose you're right, kraftig havfrue." I punched him in the shoulder with a laugh. "I'm sorry I bothered you, bro, I just shake the feeling." He stood and ruffled my hair.

"Of course, that's what brothers are for, right?" The two of us shared a chuckle before Talon excused himself. I flopped back on the bed, with a huff. I may have calmed Tal's fears, but his gave way for my own. What if he was right. I fell asleep while forcing these thoughts from my mind.

The beautiful woman that was Leviathan, poked her head out from the surface of the water. She looked concerned as a Viking style boat rounded an iceberg. It was slightly to close and she winced when the ice scraped the top layer of wood. She slithered up the iceberg and peaked down at the crew. They were all Vikings, all wore longer shirts with breeches and furs to keep them warm. Almost all of them were sitting on benches with the handles of the massive oars in their gloved hands, rowing.

Two men caught the Water Goddess' eye. They were identical twins, both handsome. They both had long hair with little braids kept together by silver rings. One had a shorter beard than the other but that was really the only difference. With a sigh from the mer, the scene changed.

Now it was dark and they had found land. The others had boarded a smaller boat and headed onto shore but one of the twins, the one with the shorter beard, had stayed behind. Leviathan swam up to the boat, reached up and pulled herself up to look at him better. She stared at him, biting her lip like a young girl, a blush tainting her cheeks.

The scene changed again, this time both twins were in the middle of the forest. The longer bearded twin glared from the corner of his eye, at his brother. He silently drew a dagger from his belt, snuck up behind him, and cut his brother's throat. He smiled as he buried his brother in a shallow grave. He grabbed his knife and trimmed his beard to match his brother's.

Once again the scene changed, as the disguised man and his colleagues were once again out at sea. The looks of sadness upon their faces. All of a sudden the waves grew bigger and bigger. The single twin smiled as he was 'washed' out to sea, only to be saved by the water goddess.

He knew, he had always known, and he wanted her all to himself.