[RPG] Elenhir and the Mermaid

[Chuong Huynh]

He knew the city was lost as he stood waiting at the harbour for the next
ship to new lands. Many of the previous captains had denied him passage
because he was a new face to the realm. Well now he was king, certainly they
would him onboard, but many of the larger ships had left and none replaced
them at the docks. The city was in chaos and the only ones that came near
either seaked it or seaked to cause it. The only one that had kept him in
the city was now dead, but then again he himself had been for many years
now.

Elenhir spotted a lone ship, with a single mast, at the end of the docks.
Its captain was nowhere to be found but their were more then enough empty
rum bottles on board. He deposited 50 gold coins into one of the bottles and
left it on the end of the rope used to moor the vessel. Then he was off
sailing into the unknown, though it seemed the ship was barely moving at
all. It was not until he discovered how to operate the anchor and hualed it
on deck with the former ship captain had he finally began on his way with no
rations, but that did not matter.

It should be known that Elenhir is not much of a sailor and the sea soon
took over the ships navigation and charted its course. The omnimous storm
clouds circled and gathered and it would not belong before he was drifting
calmly beneath the ravenous waves. That was when she came to him, initially
merely a shadow in the distance. He feared the worst when he saw the fin and
tail and assumed they would be accompanied by many rows of razor sharp
teeth. But as the figure got closer he could see it was no fish, or was it?
Her hair flowed gently with the watery current. With only a strand of kelp
over her naked body, he could tell she was definitely a woman, or atleast
half of her was. She swam up to him out of curiosity, for all the men she
had meet at this depth in the ocean had been dead; Unbeknownst to her so was
Elenhir.

She quickly drew away to a safe distance when he reached out to touch her,
but returned having acertained he meant her no harm. She stayed with him as
he went deep and deeper and together they would pirouette into the abyss of
the ocean.
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