52. Mermaid (Myth)
After a dream unlike his usual nightmarish awakenings he strolled to where he knew Wizard would be.
"A mermaid...it was..." The fortune-teller proceeded.
"Mermaid." Chase repeated, unbelieving if not stupefied.
"Yes... they come to sailors in dreams...and sing, until unwittingly...the man wanders into the sea..."
"And then what?" he asked, out of curiosity more than conviction.
"...They eat them."
"But I'm not a sailor," he shook his head, visions of the blue-haired, winged, and timeless beauty fading further away.
"No... But the mermaids are starved for sailors these days...any young man will do."
Somehow the explanation didn't offer any comfort.
A/N: Does that sound like a mermaid to you? Or something else that visits in dreams? If you guessed for my faint description that is was a dream of the Harvest Goddess then points for you... No reason, I just think that perhaps her pleas for rescue might reach unwitting minds as well as those that can answer it.
Mermaids have so many different legends that I thought I would embellish a new one. Wizard might have been wrong about the dream but I like the idea that the island has some other folklore beyond sprites and goddesses and that it isn't all pretty. (But since the Wizard knows, we can ascertain it to be true...)
