Chapter 2: Watching from Afar (Sea Witch POV)
She's eager to see it, I thought to myself, gazing deeper into my crystal ball, and watching the girl quickly swim out of the palace gates… She's so eager to see it, I thought to myself, gazing deeper still into my crystal ball, and watching the small girl swim away from her Kingdom, She looks just like her father… she has my hair. Ever since I had left the palace and my husband nearly a decade before, I had been forced to watch my three daughters grow up from afar; watching the great landmarks in their young lives from afar… Sometimes, I would lay awake at night when the ocean was dark and cold, all the while crying over them. How I longed to be with them; to be the mother that I had always been in secret… But, it was not to be, and try as I might to ignore the deep longing I felt, it was however, persistent, and remained deep within my heart.
I watched her; fondly remembering my own journey to the forbidden Land of Man. It was so long since my youth, for now, I was a lonely woman trying to keep to herself deep under the ocean in a black cave where no one dare enter… But it had not always been like this…
People who know the truth about why I left Triton refer to me as "the sea witch;" a name that has caused bitterness to grow in my heart; whenever the tides grow, or the water steadily drops in temperature, the people of our world automatically blame me. But I am not a bad person. I never was. It is true that I have practiced magic in secret for nearly all of my life, but that does not make me an evil, scheming siren determined to dig her claws into the Royal Family. I am just a woman filled with deep pain and sadness. That's probably why I decided to leave him… Because he no longer loved me, and I wanted a better life for me and my children-- although he made sure that I could never see my children face to face again…
As I watched Pearl's head break free from the binds of the sea, I felt a stabbing pain in my heart… She would never be able to tell me-- her own mother about all of her adventures, but, this was the only way to see her. I had watched her and her sisters for the past five years. I smiled to myself as I realized how beautiful she was now becoming. I watched her as she played with the waves, and felt the heat of the sun upon her pale face for the first time in her young life.
And then, I watched her with baited breath as she swam towards the sandy beach, all the while attempting to spot a mortal man. I chuckled a bit to myself when she caught sight of a little boy digging in the sand, before retreating back into the sea with a smile upon her face… Little did I know that this chance sighting would eventually lead to her untimely death…