Having been born in a seaside town Crowe, Nyx and Libertus had spent their whole lives fishing, and would probably continue doing it until they died. The three had also been friends since childhood and had always had plans of living and fishing together. As young adults those plans had become a reality when they moved in together and got a small fishing boat.

Every evening Crowe sat on the docks by the water and cleaned their nets. Nyx and Libertus might be good fishers in every other way, but she didn't trust them anywhere near their nets. Besides, it was quite calming. Just sitting down and doing repeated motions, watching the sun go down. Sometimes she'd even sing a tune, or even just hum, as she worked, thinking no one heard her.

Meanwhile, under the waters surface, another girl was looking up at her. Lunafreya, sometimes just Luna, the princess of the West Underwater Kingdom. Like all mermaids she knew the over water world was supposedly dangerous and she should keep out but that didn't stop her curiosity. The people living over the surface were so interesting, they had to walk on two legs and didn't have anything close to the magic like mermaids had. Luna wished she'd get to talk to one one day, but the people were almost always in groups.

Except the girl currently sitting on the docks. Yes, there were two other people she'd be with sometimes, but Luna had been watching her for weeks and every evening she'd be alone if only for a little while. And she had the most beautiful voice Luna had heard. Nothing under the surface could match it. Luna had tried to get the courage to talk to her, but every time she was ready the girl was done and walked away. Luna groaned at herself, she should just decide on when to do it and just do it! It wouldn't be that hard! She could even hide her fin and pretend to be a human if needed.

Yeah.

Luna looked up at the girl.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow she was gonna talk to her.

Crowe finished up her work on the nets and started to walk home. The sun threw it last light on her back as she went. In the cabin she shared with Nyx and Libertus the lights were still on. Probably meaning one or both of them were still up. Crowe hung up the nets on the wall and went into the house. Libertus, who was sitting by their table reading a book, looked up as she entered and gave her a nod in greeting. Crowe came to sit down with him.

"Nyx asleep already?"

Libertus snorted.

"Nope. Went to the bar with that captain who anchored last week." Crowe raised her eyebrows.

"Again? Are they getting serious?"

"I guess, just as long as I don't have to hear it." Libertus closed his book and leaned forward on his elbows towards Crowe. "Yesterday, when you were at the neighbours, I was gonna take a nap and just as I was about to fall asleep I hear the door opening. I though nothing of it but then." Libertus dramatically paused, before continuing in a voice meant to resemble Nyx's "Ohh Cor-"

Crowe started laughing before Libertus could continue in his mock-Nyx voice. He seemed way too fired up about this in her opinion.

"Well I'm happy for him" She managed to get out through the laughter.

"Sure, me too, I just wish they'd do it somewhere else" Libertus leaned back and crossed his arms.

Crowe just rolled her eyes at him and stood up. She headed to her room to get ready for bed.

The next day was mostly like any other. Nyx has reappeared at some point during the night and seemed happier than usual. Libertus had glared at him during breakfast but couldn't stay mad.

When the evening came Crowe was back on her usual spot on the docks, cleaning and repairing nets. She saw some ripples in the water but nothing out of the ordinary. Then suddenly a blonde head emerged making Crowe jump backwards. She looked shocked at the girl shyly looking back at her. Crowe waited for the other girl to say something but nothing happened. After having calmed down a bit from the surprise, but still being cautious, she greeted the girl in the water.

"Hi?"

The girl finally seemed to realise she was visible.

"Ah, hello!" She gave a short wave. It was kinda cute.

"W-who are you? And where did you come from?" Hearing the girl speak gave Crowe some more comfort.

"Oh, right, sorry, I'm Luna. Or well, Lunafreya but Luna is fine." The girl seemed nervous. "I'm from... eh... underwater? What do you call it?" She looked questioning at Crowe.

"Underwater?" Crowe was starting to wonder if she'd eaten something bad. Sure, as a kid she'd always dreamed of meeting a mermaid but those weren't real, and the girl in front of her definitely wasn't one. "You aren't... a mermaid, are you?" Crowe could hear how silly she sounded.

"Yes! You do know it, I wasn't sure how much human knew of us." The girl, Luna, seemed relieved. Crowe felt very much not relieved.

"For real?"

"Yes! Look!" Luna dived underwater and showed off her fin. Crowe's jaw dropped.

"Woah" Crowe didn't know what to say.

Luna giggled and blushed slightly. From under the surface she hadn't seen how beautiful the other girl was. It was making her kinda flustered.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Crowe, I'm a fisher." Crowe still looked at her in awe.

"Oh yeah I've seen you! You seem... strong" Luna immediately blushed bright red. She hadn't meant to admit she had been admiring Crowe like that.

Crowe was at a loss of words. She could hear Nyx calling her a useless lesbian in her mind. He did it endearingly but she knew it was true sometimes, she really was a disaster around pretty girls.

Without overthinking Crowe jumped into the water and came up next to Luna.

"Hey" She had emerged a little closer than intended and was now right in Lunas face. She could feel her own face burning. Luna back at her.

"Hello" Luna had a small smile on her face.

"Can I kiss you?" Crowe could feel herself getting even warmer. Oh god what if she wasn't interested in her, what if-

Before she could overthink anything Luna pressed her lips to hers.

It was just a quick kiss but Crowe loved it anyway. She pulled away to look at Lunas face. She seemed to have enjoyed it too.

"Could we continue this on the beach? So I don't have to swim at the same time" Crowe gave a small laugh.

"Sure" Luna giggled.

Luna could make her fin into legs, and go on land, she'd just never had a reason to before. But now, with Crowe, she walked up onto the beach, where they spent the rest of the night talking and kissing.

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