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“Why is Fall Mountain Island their domain? I thought all of Oceanus was yours,” I asked curiously.
“It is,” Myles drummed his fingers a bit harder, “but so far we’ve been at their mercy about certain things and I had to make certain concessions.”
“What certain things?” I asked, aware we weren’t alone, but hoping he could talk in front of the others.
Myles sighed, “As you know, there aren’t many seffies on Oceanus.”
“Hmm, I wonder why?” Thalia snarked sarcastically, “those things are frightening.”
“They are,” I agreed, shuddering in mild exaggeration.
“Those voices,” Thalia made a face, “they grate on you.”
“Their voices are divine,” Darryck’s head moved from Thalia to me to see if we were teasing.
“The most alluring sounds,” Myles agreed.
Thalia and I looked at each other and burst out laughing.
“Hell no,” Thalia snickered. “I rather listen to you sharpening your sword.”
“You hate that sound,” Darryck frowned.
“Exactly,” Thalia nodded.
“So you seffies are saying you hear their voices differently than us males?” Myles checked.
“Speak for yourselves, I can’t stand their wailing either,” Nathan muttered, barely looking up from his drawings.
“Humans are not very fond of sirens and vice versa,” I explained.
“I wonder if Leandar seffies perceive it the same,” Thalia speculated.
“It’s something to find out,” Myles agreed.
“Alright, that aside, so you don’t have any women to… to satisfy your manly needs, so you turn to sirens and—”
Myles interrupted me, “It’s not only about sex, with no seffies, we don’t have any way to procreate.”
Stunned I sat back in my chair, realizing for the first time, that I had barely seen any children and the few I had, had been in groups and boys.
“So you… procreate with the sirens?” I asked carefully, astounded that I hadn’t seen any children with more siren features then, because all the ones I had seen were definitely Leandar.
“Not exactly,” Myles stared into nothing, probably trying to figure out how much to divulge with Nathan, Darryck and Thalia here, but must have concluded that he could trust them or maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret.
“The sirens provide us each year with a hundred new born babies. Babies we then raise to become Leandar warriors.”
“But…” Thalia looked from one of us to the other, “but where do they come from?”
Myles shrugged, “The same place all babies come from, only they’re born to the sirens. They keep the girls and we keep the boys.”
My curiosity grew with each tidbit Myles divulged, “How come all the boys look like Leandars then? Do all the girls look like sirens?”
Startled he looked at me, “I’ve never… thought about it.”
Darryck chuckled, “Zyn, those sirens have a way of making you forget—” Abruptly he broke his sentence off as Thalia stared at him with slitted eyes.
“Zyn, go on, Darryck, what do those sirens do to you?”
