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“You have a battle to prepare for,” I said darkly, fearing for him now more than ever.
“Zyn.” He took me into the bathroom, where he cleaned both of us and readjusted his clothing.
“I’m sorry, querilly,” his hand caressed my cheek. “Soon, all the days of my life shall be dedicated to you and your beauty.”
I laughed, because, one I couldn’t imagine him dedicating all his days to me, no matter how much he loved me and two, this just didn’t sound like him. His rueful smile said as much, before we both broke out laughing.
“Go,” I flung a towel at him. “I will see you at the feast.”
“I’ll have an escort sent for you within the hour,” he promised.
“Escort?” I mocked, “No more guards?”
His face darkened slightly. “You are my vissy now.”
Vissy!
I was a vissy. His vissy.
I glowed, “I am.”
NIARA
As promised, I barely had time to get dressed and nibble on a piece of bread and cheese, before four hulking dragoons arrived to escort me to the pier. I pondered if this would be like this for the rest of my life, having an escort wherever I went and decided, that yeah, probably, when a siren came around the corner. And not any siren, but Sarissa, the queen of sirens.
“A word, human?” she demanded.
Something looked different though. It took me a moment to figure out what it was, but when I did, I recoiled, taking a step back toward the dragoons. Dark shadows moved underneath her skin, as if her veins and arteries were alive and humming with energy. As if her blood had turned black and her skin translucent. They made her skin appear as if it were cracking.
“You ssee me,” Sarissa hissed.
I did. I saw through her flawless beauty, which she portrayed to the Leandars, hiding the true layer of herself. The teeth that had looked perfectly straight to me the last time I saw her, were in fact serrated and sharp, ready to pierce skin. Speaking of skin, it was in fact a greyish, washed out blue, so light it could have been white. It was the color of a dead fish. Just like her lackluster hair, that robbed of its beautiful color resembled seagrass.
I wasn’t sure if all her beauty was only an illusion for the Leandars or if that’s how she truly looked like and I was only given a glimpse of what lay underneath her beauty, either way, she was the epitaph of terror to me.
“I see you,” I replied, regaining my composure.
“Interessting,” her fingers stroked through her hair, making me dizzy as the beautiful locks intertwined with the seaweed I also saw.
“It’ss time for you to leave, human,” she bared her teeth at me.
“In case you had forgotten, this is not up to me, I am his hostage,” I worked through my revulsion toward her and squared my back.
“I will help you esscape,” her voice was meant to sound alluring, but only filled me with dread. Probably because both resounded in my ears, the way others heard her and the way I did.
“Oh? And silly me thought you and Myles had some kind of alliance. An alliance you are willing to put at risk? For me? Because of the kindness of your heart? I feel flattered.” I blamed my courage to bait her on the four dragoons at my back, who I was sure wouldn’t allow her to attack me, siren queen or not.
“From woman to woman, your plight resonatess in my heart.” She replied, swaying on her tail as if trying to hypnotize me.
“Your tricks won’t work on me, siren,” I stopped her before she made an utter fool of herself. I even took a step toward her. “And you don’t fool me, you don’t have a heart.”
She rose on her tail, forcing me to look up at her, but she wasn’t intimidating me. My pulse was beating faster, but I wasn’t sure if it was because of the anger rising in me or because on a deep level she did frighten me, something I would never admit to.
“You just want Myles to yourself,” the words rang true as I spoke them and I put a challenge in my expression, daring her to contradict me.
“You want candor, human? Fine, I’ll give you candor,” her tail slid her back a few feet, but only so that she could bent her torso forward to bring her face right into mine.
