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00:00I taught a merman how to flirt, but he grounded me because he thought I was proposing.
00:04My professor did warn me, but by then, I'd already done something very stupid.
00:08How could I watch the strongest, most beautiful male on Emerald Atoll fail to find a mate?
00:14He could take down prey that weighed hundreds of pounds, but he'd never once shown up to a courtship dance.
00:19Poor thing grew up alone, no one ever taught him, so I played him courtship songs on a speaker,
00:24put on a prosthetic tail, and showed him the dance myself.
00:27He learned fast and performed it right back to me.
00:31Thrilled, I shot the whole thing and sent it to my professor to grab.
00:35He called me back screaming.
00:37You idiot, didn't you notice the razor-sharp teeth?
00:39The long claws? The powerful tail? That's not a merge.
00:43It's more like a siren out of mythology.
00:45It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
00:49The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down,
00:53dragging them somewhere no one will find them, and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
00:57Get out of there! Get out! Get out!
01:02But it was already too late. He was already swimming toward me.
01:10Two months earlier, a new male had arrived at Emerald Atoll, settling alone on the far side of the island.
01:16Merfolk live in family groups, but young males often leave the pod they grew up in to seek mates and
01:20join new colonies.
01:21It promotes genetic diversity, a smart evolutionary strategy.
01:25The merfolk were soft-featured, almost doll-like.
01:28This one was all edges, looked like a fallen angel.
01:32His teeth were pointed, his claws significantly longer than any shallow-water murs.
01:36Black hair, green eyes, a black-gold tail roughly eight feet long.
01:40This was clearly a powerful deep-sea mer who had left his pod and come to Emerald Atoll seeking a
01:45mate.
01:45I usually observed the merfolk through underwater cameras stationed around the island.
01:50But once, while boating near the atoll, I spotted him.
01:53I sent my drone after him and watched him cut through the waves, chasing down a marlin doing nearly 70
01:59miles an hour.
02:00He caught it effortlessly, slicing the fish open with his claws.
02:04The blood drew sharks and orcas from the surrounding waters, but none of them dared approach him.
02:09Deep-sea mer were clearly the unchallenged apex predators of the ocean.
02:12When he drifted past my boat, I couldn't help staring.
02:15You're amazing!
02:16Of course, he couldn't understand me.
02:18After humans discovered this planet, there had been a brief surge of interest in merfolk research.
02:23But the excitement died down fast.
02:28Merfish intelligence was only slightly above orcas.
02:31They were omnivores, living mostly on kelp and seaweed, occasionally supplemented with crabs, oysters, and small fish.
02:38And there was zero chance of crossbreeding with humans.
02:42Most researchers moved on to studying beast folk.
02:45As for me, I'd originally studied beast folk too.
02:49Isla, Isla, Isla!
02:52I have to attend a university conference and we'll probably be away for a week.
02:56Again?
02:57Yep.
02:58You're running out of time, Isla.
02:59Your graduate thesis deadline is fast approaching.
03:02But...
03:02You better have your topics settled by the time I get back.
03:04I believe you can do it.
03:06I'd been alone on Emerald Atoll for three months.
03:09If not for my cleaning drone and internet access, I'd have dropped out long ago.
03:15But after hearing me speak, the mer stopped.
03:17Those cold, piercing eyes locked onto me.
03:20A chill crawled up my spine, even though I was perfectly safe on the boat.
03:24He sliced off the choiceless cut from the marlin's back with one precise sweep of his claws and tossed it
03:29onto my deck.
03:29I'd just been fed by a mer.
03:31He was different from the others.
03:33He's smart and powerful.
03:35I could see my thesis writing at home.
03:37I might graduate early.
03:38If this mer could find a mate during mating season, he'd stay with the Emerald Atoll colony.
03:43By next spring, there could be two or three intelligent, powerful mer pups born.
03:48And I could study hybridization traits between different mer subspecies.
03:54I named the deep sea mer Opal.
03:56His black gold tail shimmered like a black opal under moonlight, flashing with iridescent fire.
04:01Mating season lasted three months.
04:03But two months in, Opal still hadn't found a mate.
04:06He hunted massive prey every day, often tossing the best cuts onto the dock, giving me a meal of fresh
04:11sashimi or pan-seared fish.
04:13He only ate the belly meat himself, discarding the rest.
04:16Before long, young males from the colony would slink over and drag away the leftovers to present to the females
04:22they were courting.
04:23He'd inadvertently helped several pairs get together.
04:26Merfolk were drawn to strength.
04:27A male who could bring down enormous prey easily won female attention.
04:31But this idiot fish had never once attended the underwater courtship dances.
04:35I consulted my professor, who said merfolk were social animals.
04:39Males typically left in groups of two or three brothers.
04:41A solitary mer had likely been separated by accident, or abandoned, forced to grow up alone.
04:47That would explain why this one was such an exceptional hunter.
04:51Without a family's protection, he'd had to become powerful to survive the ocean's danger.
04:59It also meant he probably didn't know the courtship song or dance.
05:02Without performing the courtship ritual, none of the young females would even know he was available.
05:07Of course he didn't have a mate.
05:10Once mating season ended, Opal would leave Emerald Atoll with nothing to show for it.
05:14I could feel my thesis slipping away.
05:16I had to do something.
05:18It was just a song and a dance.
05:20I'd teach him myself.
05:22I pulled up recordings of merfolk courtship songs and waited at the dock.
05:26Opal arrived, dragging another massive tuna.
05:28The warm light softened his cold features.
05:30I knew he was dangerous, but merfolk had no recorded history of harming humans.
05:35I approached him slowly.
05:37Opal.
05:40Opal, that's the name I gave you.
05:42Merfolk could only produce simple tones.
05:45They had a basic language, but communicated through ultrasound.
05:49Their vocal anatomy didn't support complex human speech.
05:52Neither did their intelligence, for that matter.
05:54He opened his mouth.
05:56Opal.
05:56Clear, precise, perfectly pronounced.
05:59He could speak.
06:00Research on deep sea mer was scarce.
06:03Perhaps some subspecies had this ability.
06:05My thesis was going to shake the entire field.
06:08Opal.
06:09I pointed at him, then pointed at myself.
06:12Isla.
06:13He immediately understood that Opal referred to him.
06:15Opal.
06:16And Ayla, to me.
06:17Isla.
06:18Remarkably intelligent.
06:19I turned on the speaker I'd compared.
06:22I'm going to teach you the courtship song.
06:24Once you learn it, you sing it for whichever mate you choose.
06:27He seemed confused, but I knew he wouldn't hurt me.
06:30Soon the lilting melody of a merfolk courtship song floated from the speaker.
06:34I had to admit, merfolk singing was beautiful.
06:37The next instant, Opal's expression changed.
06:39He drove his claws through the speaker in one violent strike,
06:43shredding it until the song went silent.
07:03Isla.
07:04Isla.
07:05Isla.
07:05Isla.
07:05Isla.
07:06Isla.
07:07Isla.
07:07Isla.
07:08Isla.
07:09Isla.
07:10Isla.
07:10Isla.
07:10Isla.
07:11Isla.
07:11Isla.
07:12Isla.
07:12Isla.
07:13Isla.
07:14Isla.
07:14Isla.
07:14The next day, I found a grouper on the dock, alongside a speaker that had been painstakingly pieced back together.
07:22Opal hovered 100 meters out, neither approaching nor leaving, just watching me.
07:27I might have overreacted yesterday.
07:30Research consistently showed merfolk were among the friendliest species known.
07:34He'd probably just been startled that the speaker could produce mersong.
07:37I waved him over. He drifted 10 meters closer, waited, and when I didn't run, cautiously closed another 10 meters.
07:44Several minutes passed before he was just a few meters away.
07:48You don't like the speaker? What if I teach you myself?
07:55Could he actually understand human speech?
07:57I'd been listening to the colony's courtship songs through underwater equipment for weeks.
08:01I knew them by heart.
08:02I sang the first line, ready to sprint the instant his claws came from my head the way they'd come
08:07for the speaker.
08:08When Opal heard me sing, his eyes lit up, he repeated the line back.
08:11I sang the full courtship song, and he echoed it perfectly.
08:14I'd expected to need a dozen repetitions, but he reproduced the entire song flawlessly on the first try.
08:19His eyes never left me. He didn't even blink. It made me uneasy.
08:23Opal, you're incredibly smart.
08:24When you meet a merm you fancy someday, you may sing this tune for her.
08:29Consider it tuition.
08:31That night, deep in sleep, I was jolted awake by a familiar melody.
08:34Furious, I threw open the window and locked eyes with Opal.
08:38Shut up!
08:39I snapped at him.
08:40The singing stopped.
08:41I finally got a good night's sleep.
08:43But days later, Opal still hadn't found a mate despite knowing the courtship song.
08:48Was I really going to have to teach him the dance tune?
08:52I was a strong swimmer and certified diver.
08:55When I was a child, trips to Thalassa were all the rage.
08:58My parents brought me here on vacation.
09:00After visiting the shallow water Merfolk, the next day, we boarded a cruise ship to search for deep sea mer.
09:06But the waves were particularly rough that day, and I fell overboard.
09:10Over ten days later, my parents found me unconscious on the shore, burning with fever.
09:15The fever wiped my memory of that entire period.
09:17The assumption was that a shallow water Merfolk pod had rescued me.
09:21After that ordeal, once we returned to our home world, my parents enrolled me in swimming and diving lessons.
09:25I never imagined that years later I'd end up back on Thalassa, and that those skills would actually prove useful.
09:30When you see a female you like, have you tried singing the courtship song for her?
09:34He nodded.
09:35I was furious.
09:36He'd already sung the courtship song and still got rejected.
09:38These females had no taste.
09:40Opal was the most stunning mer on Emerald Atoll.
09:42Do you know the courtship dance?
09:46He shook his head.
09:47Fine, for the sake of my thesis, I'd go all in.
09:50I turned, walked into the room, slipped on the silver imitation fishtail, and then dove into the sea.
09:56I mimicked the courtship dance movements, twirling through the sea.
09:59Opal's eyes grew brighter and brighter, unblinking, fixed on every movement.
10:03Mike.
10:04That was the first word he'd said to me besides my name.
10:06Idiot.
10:06If he liked it, then he'd better learn it.
10:08I was counting on those mer pups next year.
10:10When the dance ended, he retracted his claws.
10:12Opal pulled me into a full embrace, carefully circling my waist, resting his head on my shoulder,
10:18his tail pressing close against mine.
10:21Like Isla.
10:22Compared to my clumsy, slightly ridiculous imitation of a mer dance, Opal's was effortless and powerful, devastatingly beautiful.
10:29He sang something similar to the merfolk courtship song, but more ethereal, more haunting.
10:33Those impossible eyes held nothing but my reflection the entire time.
10:37Like a sailor bewitched by a siren, I found myself swimming toward him, wanting to dance with him.
10:41The moment my hand touched his, I snapped out of it.
10:44Dancing with a fish, I'd lost my mind.
10:45I turned and swam hard for shore.
10:48Behind me, Opal slowly lowered his hand, watching me leave in silence.
10:58I'd barely peeled off the wet tail when my professor called, and his furious voice erupted from my comm device.
11:04You idiot!
11:04You told me you found a deep sea mer.
11:06Didn't you notice the razor sharp teeth?
11:08The long claws?
11:10The powerful tail?
11:11That's not a mer.
11:12It's more like a siren out of mythology.
11:14It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
11:18The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down, dragging them somewhere no one
11:24will find them, and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
11:27Get out of there!
11:28Get out!
11:29Get out!
11:30So my gut had been right all along.
11:32I'd always known Opal looked different from the merfolk.
11:34He wasn't a deep sea mer at all.
11:36He was a new species.
11:37An extremely dangerous new species.
11:39Which meant the Emerald Atoll Research Station, with zero physical barriers, was a death trap.
11:45Until my professor secured funding and the station was reinforced, I had to leave immediately.
11:50I grabbed the essentials and launched my yacht.
11:52As the island shrank behind me, I let myself breathe.
11:55I hadn't said goodbye.
11:57That thought sat heavy in my chest.
11:59Whatever he was, he'd never actually hurt me.
12:03My professor called to make sure I'd gotten out.
12:05I'm well clear of the atroy!
12:07Thank God.
12:08I thought the worst you'd cost me was my academic reputation.
12:11I didn't expect I'd nearly have to attend your funeral.
12:14But I had no appetite for his jokes.
12:16My voice was shaking.
12:18It's here.
12:21Opal's black hair billows in the wind, his sleek tail cutting through the water like an arrow.
12:26He caught up in seconds.
12:27His expression was colder than anything I'd ever seen.
12:30I told myself it was fine.
12:32The hull was metal.
12:33I was safe.
12:34Then five pointed claws punched through the cabin wall.
12:37The metal tore apart like paper.
12:39I fell backward.
12:40The clumsiness on the dock had been an act.
12:43The moment he boarded, his tail split slowly into two human legs.
12:47He walked toward me step by step, like something out of a nightmare.
12:50Don't run.
12:51All that friendliness had been an act.
12:53From the day he appeared, he could have slaughtered me and the entire colony any time he wanted.
12:58But he hadn't.
12:59Had it all been a game to him?
13:01The moment his prey tried to run, the mask came off.
13:04Don't leave.
13:06My Isla.
13:07And then his lips pressed against mine.
13:09He was kissing me.
13:10Why?
13:11He pushed a smooth, hard pearl from his mouth into mine.
13:14His tongue forcing it to the back of my throat until I swallowed.
13:17Only then did he pull back.
13:19A satisfied smile spreading across his face.
13:21You can't escape now.
13:23My mate.
13:27The instant I swallowed the pearl, everything went black.
13:31Opal took me like prey.
13:32His tail reformed, and he held me against his chest as he shot through the ocean, heading somewhere unknown.
13:38My comm device lay abandoned on the deck.
13:40My professor's voice still coming through.
13:42What do you mean it's here?
13:43Isla, talk to me.
13:44A long silence.
13:46Then a sigh, and the sound of another call going out.
13:48Hello, is this planetary security?
13:50I woke up in iron shackles.
13:52I was inside a cave on some island.
13:54The only exit was submerged.
13:56Even if I could somehow dive through it, I'd face nothing but open ocean on the other side.
14:00A few meters away, he was slicing a massive fish into fillets with a poker face.
14:05Blood ran into the water.
14:06The metallic smell was everywhere.
14:08It looked like a scene from a slasher film.
14:10Was I next?
14:13He looked up.
14:14That cold expression was even more terrifying than before.
14:18Liar!
14:19You can't escape.
14:20Before, he'd only ever said a word or two at a time.
14:22Now he was speaking in full sentences.
14:25Fluent.
14:25Precise.
14:26Like he'd know how to talk all along and had simply chosen not to.
14:30An animal would just kill you.
14:31But something intelligent enough to take hostages was something you could reason with.
14:35What exactly did I lie about?
14:37His expression grew angrier.
14:38You courted me first.
14:41Me?
14:42I accepted.
14:43And you ran.
14:44You always lie to me.
14:46I'd sung the courtship song to him.
14:49Danced the courtship dance.
14:51From his perspective, I'd been proposing.
14:53And he had accepted.
14:56I softened my voice.
14:58This was all a misunderstanding.
15:01I'm a merfish researcher.
15:02I thought you were a male mer who'd come to join the Emerald Ator colony but didn't know how to
15:07court.
15:08I was teaching you.
15:09His fist slammed into the cave wall, punching out a chunk of solid rock.
15:13I didn't want to imagine what would happen if that had been my skull.
15:16I should never have accepted that reassignment.
15:19Shut up.
15:21You wanted me to court those stupid weak merfish.
15:24It took a long time for the rage to subside before he spoke again.
15:27His voice was calm but with something unhinged underneath.
15:30It doesn't matter.
15:31Only stupid merfish court that way.
15:34My inherited instinct tells me this is how we do it.
15:37We take our mate and hide them away.
15:42Everything my professor said had been true.
15:44Why couldn't he have told me sooner?
15:46He pushed the raw fillets toward me.
15:48Hit.
15:49I was about to refuse when hunger slammed into me like a wall.
15:52I wanted that fish more than I'd ever wanted anything in my life.
15:55I devoured every last piece.
15:58He watched with a look of satisfaction, entirely unsurprised.
16:02As if he had known this would happen.
16:04After eating, an overwhelming drowsiness hit.
16:07I slept again.
16:08When I woke, he was slicing fish.
16:10I ate again.
16:11Days passed before the hunger and exhaustion finally faded.
16:15I demanded answers.
16:17What did you do to me?
16:18He took my hand and guided my fingers behind my ears.
16:21On each side, I felt openings, developing gills.
16:24My skin had changed too.
16:26Smoother and slicker.
16:27Like it was no longer meant for land.
16:29I could probably stay underwater for hours now.
16:32The pearl.
16:33Am I going to turn into a creature like you?
16:38Yes.
16:40You'll become a siren like me.
16:43You'll never go back to the human world.
16:45I was going to turn into one of them.
16:47Never see my family again.
16:49Trapped with this monster for the rest of my life.
16:51Monster.
16:52Even if I'm not human anymore, I'll never be with you.
16:55I hate you.
16:55I'd rather spend my life with a pot of murphine.
16:59His jaw clenched.
17:00Eyes went bright with fury.
17:02But underneath it, just for a second, I saw something break.
17:06Then I'll keep you chained here forever.
17:08You won't see another human.
17:09You won't even see a mur.
17:11From that day on, my body kept changing.
17:13More and more like a fish.
17:15The openings behind my ears grew from two to six within two weeks.
17:19I didn't say a single word to him.
17:21The chains were long enough that I could reach the cave entrance.
17:24I'd tried submerging my head, and I could last hours now before I heard him coming back.
17:29If I could just get the shackles off, I could escape.
17:31Today he returned dragging only a small grouper.
17:33But his black gold tail bore a long gash.
17:36Iridescent scales fell away with every movement.
17:38He was injured.
17:39He didn't even have the strength to shift into legs.
17:45He just lay down and closed his eyes.
17:47I walked over and checked his breathing.
17:52Too bad I didn't die.
17:54You must be so disappointed.
17:56Obviously.
17:57I wish you'd drop dead.
17:59What happened to you?
18:00A pot of orcas.
18:03About thirty of them.
18:05Tried to take my territory.
18:07I won, of course.
18:09Just a scratch.
18:12Orcas.
18:13The oceans roaming fuzz.
18:15Thirty of them.
18:16And he won.
18:17I died a little inside.
18:18I truly provoked something terrifying.
18:21I kicked the grouper he brought into the water.
18:23I don't want grouper.
18:25I want salmon.
18:28Tomorrow?
18:29I want it today, you useless fish who can't even land a mate.
18:32Either let me go or go catch some right now.
18:37Tomorrow?
18:38I want it today, you useless fish who can't even land a mate.
18:42Either let me go or go catch some right now.
18:44He hauled himself up and swam back out through the entrance.
18:47After a long while, he returned with several salmon.
18:50The wound on his tail had turned white and waterlogged from the salt.
18:53Actually, I don't want salmon anymore.
18:55Too rich.
18:56I want something lighter.
18:58Sea bream.
18:59He dragged himself back out to catch sea bream.
19:01He brought the bream back.
19:03Before I could say another word, he collapsed.
19:05With his eyes closed, he looked completely harmless.
19:09The wound had gone raw from the seawater.
19:11I cleaned it.
19:12I sat beside him and closed my own eyes.
19:15I should hate him.
19:20I was floating in the ocean, but I knew I was dreaming.
19:22I turned back into a child.
19:24I saw another child about my age.
19:26Was I dreaming?
19:27I reached out to him.
19:29Please, help me.
19:30He swam toward me, and I saw that his lower half was a slender tail.
19:34A mare.
19:34He rescued me, set me on a reef, and caught food for me.
19:37A good myrrh.
19:38I wanted him to take me somewhere with people.
19:40I want to go home.
19:41My parents would be worried.
19:42But he couldn't understand me, so I taught him to speak, word by word.
19:46He was smart.
19:47In just over ten days, we could communicate.
19:50I learned he wasn't a myrrh.
19:51He was a siren.
19:53Sirens were solitary.
19:54The unchallenged apex predators of the deep.
19:56Sirens never raised their young.
19:58From the moment a hatchling broke free of its egg, it faced the dangerous ocean alone.
20:02Only those who survived earned the name siren.
20:04I was very innocent as a child.
20:06Innocent in that way only children can be.
20:08The kind that cuts.
20:10So you don't have family or friends?
20:12You've always been alone?
20:13Not even a fish friend?
20:15Don't you get lonely?
20:18What's lonely?
20:22Lonely is when there's no one to play with you.
20:24No one to talk to.
20:25No one who misses you.
20:27I didn't know what lonely was before.
20:30So I wasn't lonely.
20:33Now I will be.
20:35I'm sorry.
20:36After I go home-
20:37I'll come back every summer to play with you.
20:39I'll talk to you.
20:40And I'll miss you.
20:42Let's make a pinky promise.
20:43I swear.
20:44He copied my gesture solemnly, extending his little finger, careful not to nick me with
20:48his sharp claws and hooked it around mine.
20:50Cross your heart.
20:51We're best friends.
20:52I'll never forget you.
20:55Best friends.
20:56I'd planned to stay a few more days before having him take me home.
20:59But the sea wind and the monotonous diet made me sick.
21:02A fever set in.
21:03Everything blurred.
21:04His face went white.
21:05It's my fault.
21:06You don't belong in the sea.
21:08I'll take you somewhere with humans.
21:10They'll help you.
21:11He carried me on his thin back, racing through the ocean, trying to keep the waves from soaking
21:15my hair.
21:17When I'm better, I'll come back for you.
21:21Isla.
21:23I'll wait.
21:24He slipped back into the water.
21:25And only after people found me and carried me away did that small shape in the distance
21:29finally disappear.
21:31But I never kept my promise.
21:33I forgot all of it.
21:37If I hadn't been reassigned to my professor years later, I might never have returned to
21:41Thalassa in my life.
21:42And Opal had come to Emerald Atoll not for the merfolk.
21:46For me.
21:47And what had I done?
21:48I'd made him think I was courting him.
21:50He accepted.
21:52I ran.
21:53He thought I'd betrayed him twice.
21:55In his fury, he took me.
21:59Liar.
22:00I hated you.
22:02You are a monster.
22:03I'd never be with you.
22:05Sirens heal with terrifying speed.
22:06Within hours, the vicious wound had closed.
22:08Opal opened his eyes and saw me still obediently shackled.
22:12Only then did he relax.
22:13Opal, you're awake.
22:15Does anything still hurt?
22:16Even if you've changed tactics and you're trying to soft me up, I won't let you go.
22:22Opal, you're awake.
22:23Does anything still hurt?
22:25Even if you've changed tactics and you're trying to soft me up, I won't let you go.
22:28I'd forgotten our promise.
22:31Everything on Emerald Atoll had been a misunderstanding.
22:34Liar.
22:35Don't think saying that will make me release you.
22:37My goal now wasn't escape.
22:38It was to comfort this poor fish who'd been let down for over a decade.
22:42I don't want to leave anymore.
22:43I'll stay here with you.
22:46Then you'll be my mate.
22:49Soon, here, we'll be growing an egg.
22:51Didn't you want to study my offspring?
22:53Isla, why not carry them yourself?
22:56I'm a human, you know?
22:57You swallowed my pearl.
22:59Your body has already been altered to carry Siren Young.
23:05Honestly, I wasn't entirely opposed to him.
23:07Interspecies marriage laws between beast folk and humans had already passed.
23:11Plenty of humans were into it.
23:12But carrying an egg was beyond anything I'd mentally prepared for.
23:15Can we just date first?
23:18A purely platonic relationship?
23:20I explained what platonic meant.
23:22He got angrier.
23:24You're lying again.
23:25I'll never believe you.
23:26But when I asked him to unlock the chains so I could swim, he agreed.
23:30Just as I thought.
23:32All bark, no bite.
23:33But impossible to convince.
23:35While Opal was out hunting, I dove into the water at the cave entrance and discovered
23:40small bioluminescent fish.
23:42I caught a few and snacked on them.
23:44When I surfaced, my body was burning.
23:47Especially there.
23:48I tried to deal with it for a long time, but the relief wouldn't come.
23:51Opal returned and saw the remaining bioluminescent fish.
23:56Merfish eat those during mating.
23:58You ate them?
23:58How was there something like that just swimming around?
24:00Humans really had studied this planet nowhere near enough.
24:03It kept getting worse.
24:04My face was burning.
24:05And not just from the effect.
24:07I couldn't believe I was about to say this.
24:09I reached out to Opal.
24:10Can you help me, Opal, please?
24:15He just stood there, looking like a kicked puppy despite being a creature that could kill
24:1930 orcas.
24:20You always do this.
24:21You asked me first, then you took it back.
24:24Every single time.
24:25I pulled him closer by the wrist.
24:27I like you.
24:28I want you.
24:29Now, you really have to help me.
24:31I need you.
24:32He didn't move.
24:33His eyes were fixed on me, wounded and wary.
24:36You're begging me now, but tomorrow you'll hate me again.
24:40I don't believe you.
24:41Those green eyes looked so lost, like he was already bracing for me to disappear.
24:44So I kissed him first.
24:46He froze.
24:46Then his arms came around me so tight I thought my ribs would crack.
24:50He was gentle at first, trembling even.
24:53Like he was afraid I'd break.
24:55Then not.
24:56By the end I was breathless, clinging to him, telling him that was enough.
25:00I couldn't take any more.
25:01He didn't stop until my body gave out completely.
25:06The next morning, clear-headed, I processed the fact that I'd slept with a fish.
25:10It had actually felt pretty good.
25:12I might genuinely be in love with Opal.
25:14When Opal saw me awake, he handed me a knife made from shell.
25:17You hate me even more now, don't you?
25:19I forced you last night.
25:21I'd been on the bottom, but I knew full well who'd been forcing whom.
25:24You must despise me.
25:25I've unlocked your chains.
25:27You can use this knife to fierce my heart, then leave this place forever.
25:30Go back to the human world.
25:32And then what?
25:32He'd dissolve into sea foam?
25:34He was pure-hearted and soft underneath it all, playing at being a captor when he didn't
25:38have the constitution for it.
25:39I really like you.
25:41If you don't believe me, let's do it again.
25:44So we did.
25:45Many, many times.
25:46In the cave at the bottom of the sea.
25:48But he still didn't believe me.
25:52He was convinced I was trying to lull him into dropping his guard so I could escape.
25:56I could only keep repeating that I loved him.
25:58That I'd take him to meet my parents.
25:59That I'd marry him.
26:00He just looked at me with sadness.
26:02You'd even lure me to the human world so they can capture me for research?
26:05Your thesis means that much to you?
26:07Enough to endure all this and seduce me?
26:09I had no way to defend myself.
26:11So I seduced him again, easier than arguing.
26:13Until one day, I couldn't stop vomiting.
26:15The color drained from my face.
26:16Opal panicked completely, remembering the night over a decade ago when I'd nearly died of fever.
26:21I'll take you back to the humans right now.
26:22After this, you'll never see me again.
26:25Didn't you say I'd become a siren like you?
26:27He kissed me with desperation.
26:29I lied.
26:29The pearl only changes a mate's body a little.
26:32Enough to adapt to prolonged life at sea.
26:34Enough for your body to handle me and to carry my egg.
26:37But you're still fundamentally human.
26:39I know you've wanted to leave this whole time.
26:42I imprisoned you.
26:43You hate me.
26:46Just like 10 years ago, Opal carried me on his back and tore through the ocean until I spotted Emerald
26:51Atoll's research station in the distance.
26:53The station had been renovated.
26:55It looked completely different from before.
26:57He set me down on the dock, took one last long look at me, and turned to leave.
27:00I called out to him.
27:01The next instant, a metal trap crashed down from above, paging a powerful siren inside.
27:05Who said you could leave my test subject?
27:08So this was your plan all along?
27:10For your research and your thesis?
27:12You go as far as seducing me?
27:14All to capture me alive.
27:16You win.
27:19That's right.
27:20I was exactly the kind of person who'd do anything to graduate.
27:23After I discovered a new species, my professor secured a massive research grant.
27:27The Emerald Atoll Station was expanded to several times its original size.
27:30Additional researchers were brought in, and my professor took up permanent residence as Project Lead.
27:35He chewed me out beyond all recognition, but had no choice except to clean up my moss.
27:39But the siren refused to cooperate with any experiments.
27:42He wouldn't eat.
27:42Wouldn't drink.
27:43Wouldn't speak.
27:44His aggression was extreme.
27:45The researchers couldn't collect so much as a blood sample, or a strand of hair.
27:50Finally, I went alone to the cage holding the siren.
27:53You'll die if you don't eat or drink.
27:56What a shame.
27:57You'll only have a siren corpse to study.
28:00In a few months, we'll have a living siren.
28:03Right here.
28:05You're carrying my egg.
28:07It's your child, too.
28:09Do you really hate sirens that much?
28:11Aren't sirens supposed to just dump their young in the ocean any, don't we?
28:14I pretend you don't know.
28:19My blood, my hair, even my tail.
28:22Take whatever you want.
28:23But you cannot harm our child.
28:25Opal abandoned his anger strike and cooperated fully with the research team.
28:29Intelligence tests, language assessments, blood samples, everything.
28:33Three months later, a paper emerged that shook the field.
28:36A new intelligent species had been discovered on Thalassa, the siren.
28:40A species with a humanoid upper body and a fish-like tail.
28:43Intelligence comparable to humans.
28:45Capable of understanding and speaking human language.
28:48With extraordinary physical resilience and immense strength.
28:51Everyone left Emerald Atoll to celebrate.
28:53Only I walked alone to the lab.
28:55The caged siren opened his eyes.
28:57No grief.
28:57No joy.
28:58You imprisoned me once.
28:59I imprisoned you once.
29:00We're even.
29:01So, debt paid.
29:02Can I go?
29:03Of course.
29:04Sirens are now recognized by the Interstellar Alliance as an intelligent species.
29:08You qualify for full legal personship, same as humans.
29:10You can marry anyone you want.
29:12Mr. Opal, you've never believed that I love you.
29:15But I'm going to propose anyway.
29:17I used some extreme meths to keep you here, but I learned them from you.
29:21Will you marry me?
29:22You don't want our child to be born out of wedlock, do you?
29:26Isla, you're proposing to me.
29:31When you said you liked me before, it was real.
29:35If I didn't love you, why would I sleep with you?
29:38Why would I carry your egg and actually want to keep it?
29:40We took your blood exactly once.
29:43The only purpose was to test which medications would work on you.
29:48Nobody's doing illegal research with it.
29:51If you hadn't gone and written yourself into some tragic drama, you convinced I hated you,
29:55ready to swim off and never come back, I would have taken you to meet my parents the next day.
29:58You'd apply for personhood yourself, and we'd be married within a month.
30:01You idiot.
30:02You forced me to lock you up so you wouldn't leave.
30:07I'm an idiot too.
30:08I literally taught you courtship rituals and told you to use them on Murphic.
30:12When he just stood there frozen.
30:14Of course, if you don't like me anymore, if you still hate me,
30:18if you're going to press charges, can you only press them against me?
30:21The next instant, Opal sealed my lips with his.
30:24I closed my eyes and kissed him back.
30:25A long time passed before he spoke.
30:27Isla, from the moment I met you, there hasn't been a single second I didn't love you.
30:32That flimsy cage could never have held me.
30:34If I'd wanted to leave, I would have left any time.
30:36The only reason I stayed was you.
30:37Even Belim, you hated me.
30:39Even thinking I was nothing but your test subject, I loved you.
30:41The hunger strike was just to see you.
30:43You threatened me with our child, and I still couldn't hate you.
30:48The egg hatched into a human child.
30:51Dark hair, round ears.
30:53He had Opal's green eyes, but aside from that, he looked nothing like a siren.
31:02Is this really our child?
31:03Did someone swap him out?
31:05The next instant, Opal casually tossed him into the bathtub.
31:09I wanted to murder him.
31:11What are you doing?
31:12What kind of father are you?
31:14But Finn rolled happily in the water.
31:16His legs fused into a golden tail, and his ears shifted into pointed siren ears.
31:21Definitely our little fish after all.
31:24Good.
31:26We can throw him in the ocean to fend for himself now.
31:29My baby is going to be the happiest child in the world.
31:32He has loving parents and grandparents, and he'll go to preschool and make tons of friends.
31:36You want me to throw him in the ocean?
31:38Do you have a death wish?
31:40We can throw him in the ocean to fend for himself now.
31:43My baby is going to be the happiest child in the world.
31:47He has loving parents and grandparents, and he'll go to preschool and make tons of friends.
31:51You want me to throw him in the ocean?
31:53Do you have a death wish?
31:54But that's how I grew up.
31:55Never met my parents, let alone grandparents.
31:58My only friend was you.
31:59And then you never came back.
32:01I waited where we said goodbye for over a decade.
32:04You have me now.
32:06You have all my love.
32:08You're already the happiest siren in the world.
32:11Then tonight, let's leave Finn with your parents.
32:14It's been too long since we were close.
32:16I agreed.
32:17The next day, my body nearly fell apart.
32:19Definitely a supernatural creature.
32:21Draining me dry.
32:25The changes of my body didn't stop after Finn was born.
32:29I noticed it in the shower.
32:31Faint, iridescent lines running along my forearms, barely visible unless the light hit them just right.
32:37Scales.
32:38Or the ghost of scales.
32:40I could hold my breath underwater for 40 minutes now.
32:44My night vision had sharpened.
32:45Food tasted different.
32:48Blander on land, richer in the sea.
32:51Opal.
32:52You said the pearl would only change me a little.
32:58I said it would change you enough.
33:00Enough for what?
33:02I'm growing scales.
33:04They suit you.
33:06That's not the point.
33:07The pearl bonds us.
33:08Your body adapts to live where I live.
33:10It won't stop.
33:11So what's the endgame?
33:12Will I grow a tail?
33:13No.
33:14You'll never be a siren.
33:15But you won't be entirely human either.
33:18Something in between.
33:20Something new.
33:24Something new.
33:25Like Finn.
33:27Will it short my lifespan?
33:28No.
33:29It will lengthen it.
33:31How much?
33:35Enough to stay with me.
33:37I didn't ask how long sirens lived.
33:39I wasn't sure I wanted to know.
33:41My parents arrived on the weekly supply shuttle.
33:44Mom burst into tears the moment she saw Finn.
33:48He's beautiful.
33:49He looks just like you, Isla.
33:51Wait till you see his other form.
33:53As if on cue, Finn spat up, got fussy.
33:56Golden scales rippled across his lower half.
34:00A tail emerged, thrashing.
34:02Mom screamed.
34:03Dad caught Finn before he hit the floor.
34:06Held him awkwardly.
34:08Examined the tail with the calm of a retired engineer.
34:11Flexible.
34:12Good muscle tone.
34:15You were like this as a baby?
34:18I don't know.
34:19No one was there.
34:21The room went quiet.
34:22Set Finn in the water basin I kept nearby for exactly these situations.
34:27Well, he won't be alone.
34:29Finn splashed happily, tail glinting gold.
34:32That night...
34:34Isla.
34:35Hmm?
34:36He must love you so much.
34:37I've never seen anyone so terrified of losing someone.
34:40He's dramatic.
34:41No.
34:41He's terrified you'll disappear.
34:43I won't.
34:44I know, sweetheart.
34:45Make sure he knows too.
34:48The research station expanded again after opal species was formally classified.
34:54My professor brought in a whole team of specialists.
34:57Marine biologists, linguists, geneticists.
35:00One of them caught my attention.
35:02Or Dr. Lina Hsu, a 28-year-old ocean acoustics researcher who'd graduated top of her class.
35:07She was specifically interested in siren vocalization.
35:10The frequencies opal could produce that no mer could.
35:14The range is extraordinary.
35:16In love.
35:18He can generate infrofound that affects the nervous system.
35:21That's likely the basis of the mythological siren song.
35:24It isn't magic.
35:25It's targeted neurological manipulate-ate through sound waves.
35:29Comforting.
35:30Can I get a few more recording sessions with him?
35:35Can I get a few more recording sessions with him?
35:38Opal agreed easily.
35:40He'd been cooperative with the team since the day I proposed.
35:43But I noticed something.
35:44Every time Lina entered the room, Opal shifted his body between her and me.
35:48Subtle.
35:49Unconscious.
35:50Maybe.
35:50His nostrils flared slightly when she passed.
35:53One day, after Finn was asleep, Opal spoke.
35:56That woman.
35:58Lina?
35:58She smells wrong.
35:59Wrong how?
36:00She has siren scent on her.
36:01Old, faded, but there.
36:03You're sure?
36:04I know what my own kind smells like, Isla.
36:06She touched a siren, and it wasn't me.
36:10I ran a background check the next morning.
36:12Lina Shu, born on Colony 7, Ph.D. from Central University, published 12 papers on cetacean
36:19communication, joined a deep-sea expedition to Thalassa's southern hemisphere two years
36:24ago.
36:24Everything checked out.
36:26Spotless record.
36:27I pulled the expedition report, a routine survey mission.
36:30No incidents logged.
36:32No contact with unknown species.
36:34But the mission had lasted six months, and Lina had spent three weeks separated from the
36:38main team after a submersible malfunction.
36:41The official report said she survived on emergency rations until rescue arrived.
36:47Three weeks alone in the deep ocean.
36:49I brought this to Opal.
36:51That's when it happened.
36:52You can't know that three weeks in deep water, alone, and she came back alive?
36:56Something kept her alive.
36:59That's when it happened.
37:01You can't know that three weeks in deep water, alone, and she came back alive?
37:05Something kept her alive.
37:06That night, I couldn't sleep.
37:08I activated the dock cameras on a hunch.
37:112.47 a.m.
37:12Lina walked to the end of the dock, alone.
37:14She stood at the edge, looking out at the black water.
37:17Then she raised her hands to her lips and blew a sequence of notes.
37:20Low.
37:21Haunting.
37:22Not more folk song.
37:23Something answered from the deep.
37:25A sound that made my bones ache, even through the camera's audio feed.
37:28And far below the surface, captured by the underwater sensors, a shape moved.
37:33Massive.
37:34Larger than Opal.
37:36Dark red.
37:39I showed Opal the footage at dawn.
37:41That's a siren.
37:42Male.
37:42Mature.
37:43Bigger than me.
37:44Bigger than you?
37:44I thought you were-
37:45I'm young.
37:46Sirens don't stop growing.
37:47That one is old.
37:48Maybe centuries.
37:49Centuries?
37:50Is he dangerous?
37:51Every siren is dangerous.
37:53But this one-
37:54He replayed the footage.
37:55He's not hunting.
37:56He's searching.
37:58For Lina?
37:59For his mate.
37:59She didn't stay with him.
38:01She left.
38:02Do you know what happens to a siren whose mate leaves?
38:05I remembered his words from long ago.
38:07The pearl was part of his life force.
38:09Given freely.
38:10Irreversible.
38:11You said it's worse than death.
38:13The bond screams.
38:14Every moment apart is agony.
38:16The instinct to find your mate overweighs everything else.
38:18Rational thought.
38:19Self-preservation.
38:21Eventually, even recognition of the mate themselves.
38:25They go feral.
38:27Hmm.
38:27How long does it take?
38:28Depends on the siren.
38:29Weeks.
38:30Months.
38:30For one that old and powerful.
38:32He's held on longer than any siren should be able to.
38:35But he's close to the edge.
38:37The next night, the underwater cameras caught him again.
38:39Closer this time.
38:40Close enough to see details.
38:41A massive siren.
38:43Easily ten feet of dark crimson tail.
38:45One eye clouded over.
38:46His claws were extended gouging trenches in the seafloor.
38:49But when Lina's melody drifted down from above,
38:52he went still, pressed his palm flat against the ocean floor,
38:55and stayed there, listening.
38:56Until the song ended.
38:58Then the dark shape sank back into the abyss.
39:00See you next time.
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