[012 ☿] Mer-cury

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She's a mermaid, slipping through the water even faster than her normal body could do, darting beneath the waves and breathing her element. Her tail, shimmering blue and silver scales, flickers to speed her along. Sapphires adorn her ears and neck. When she surfaces, finally, she rests on a small rock outcropping, and plays her harp.

The music is clear and lovely. When her voice joins it, lilting and enticing, it becomes irresistible. Nothing like it belongs to this world. Ships divert their courses, heading straight for the rocks, heedless and helpless.

The inevitable wreckage causes chaos. Men shout and struggle to keep themselves afloat. A black-haired soldier determined to reach Mercury finally comes close, only for the mermaid to grab him with unnatural strength and drag him beneath the water with her in a grasping and clinging embrace. She laughs coldly, stirring up a cloud of bubbles that entangle themselves in her hair that wavers with the current. She likes luring them to her.

These sailors and soldiers are far from the first. In the background, the remains of several ships pile up against the misty horizon, notably one marked as the SS Senshi.

[ooc: join in the mer-cury's mischief, be drowned or wrecked (or spared if you're a friend!), just swim together, anything goes. can tell me what you'd prefer.]

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If I didn't believe it strongly enough to argue it, I wouldn't have done what I did.

[But she changes the topic anyway as she skirts another hallway, staying near the 'ceiling'.]

What jewel do you like most?

[curepotion.livejournal.com]

Opals.

It's my birthstone.

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

Did you know uncut opals are often stored in water?

It reduces crazing, unpredictable cracks that can occur if the opal is exposed to intense light.

[She's pretty sure he gets the point. And she heads straight towards a column laced with opals.]

[curepotion.livejournal.com]

[ relish the look on Riku's face, Ami. it's of true, unbridled surprise, not minute surprise from a timeline switching to an offshoot. not surprise at his thoughts of human morality being proven wrong.

sincere surprise of someone who didn't see this coming. ]

These are...

GOTCHA RIKU XD

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[Oh, she does. She relishes it like she relishes every reaction. She lives on them. She smiles with a decided pride.]

Do you like it?

YUP 8D

[curepotion.livejournal.com]

[ he reins it back in. ]

Yeah. They're beautiful.

She will treasure this moment always.

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[As if to rub it in, a handful of fish with opalescent coloring of their own saunter by. Someone will shoo them from the palace eventually.]

Why not stay down here awhile?

[Like, oh, forever. She is still a mermaid. Letting him live doesn't mean letting him go.]

Grrr. XD

[curepotion.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't I get pruny?

/smirk smirk smirk XD

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

[That matters so much less.]

I don't want to let you go back up there yet.