I was taken aback at the blue girl’s accusation.
All your kind does is lie
What did that even an?
"My kind?" I said surprised. "I don’t understand."
"You’re a wolf." Pearl said in an accusatory tone.
I wondered what wolves had done to them for her to glare at the way she did.
I could tell she didn’t trust nor want to be around .
But I couldn’t tell why.
"I’m actually not a wolf." I stated in all honesty.
She furrowed her brows. "What do you an?"
"Well I’m supposed to be one." I saw an attempt to flee in her eyes and so I quickly added. "But I’m a reject amongst my kind. I’m a latent wolf. Unshifted."
She looked at , her eyes prompting to explain more.
I sighed. "I don’t have a wolf. I can never shift. So I’m more of an abomination to my kind."
"I see." She said plainly.
I chewed my bottom lip unsure of what to say to keep her around.
"My people don’t trust wolves." She said. "Neither do I."
"Oh." I said.
"But you’re a reject so I suppose you are different from them." She said bluntly.
Ouch?
Okay that was a bit harsh.
"I guess I am." I said.
Anything to make her stay.
"The song you humd." She said not just her head back up, but to her waist.
She had two sea shells covering her delicate breasts and corals in the form of beads around her waist where her navel was.
I saw silver fins around her waist but the sea hid the rest of her lower body.
"It’s not a song for wolves. It’s our song. A song for sirens." She said.
That was impossible.
I had never t a siren before so how could I have know it?
"You don’t believe no?" She asked.
"I actually don’t." I said truthfully.
She closed her eyes and began to sing.
To my greatest shock, she was singing my song.
Except it wasn’t a hum anymore, it was now filled with words.
Each word ford a rhy and tuned with what I had humd my entire life.
She sang it so beautifully I was amazed and everywhere seed to be in harmony.
By the ti she was done, I was on the brink of tears.
I clapped for her.
"That was such a beautiful song." I told her.
She bowed so delicately you would think she was born to do it.
When she rose her head, she had a smile plastered on her face.
It was the first ti I had ever seen her smile and her smile was radiant.
"Thank you." She said. "Do you believe now
Unshifted?"
I nodded. "Yes I do. But how?"
"I should be asking you the sa thing." She told as she made gently waves with her hand. "That song is one we sing to ourselves alone. It’s not allowed for outsiders to hear or know it because it carries magic. The only ti we sing that song is to revive soone from death." She said.
I blinked. "Death? Did you say death?"
She nodded with a smile. "Mmmhmm."
The song I had been humming my entire life was a siren resurrection song?
"If you say it isn’t allowed, then why did you sing it for ?" I asked.
"Because you have already heard that song sowhere already." She said and I saw her swim up towards .
I was standing by the beach so when she approached there wasn’t much distance.
She beckoned to to co forward.
I wanted to run!
What if she dragged inside and drowned because i knew a song I wasn’t ant to.
"Do not worry. It’s my turn to tell you not to worry." She said with a grin. "I give you my word."
I sighed and took closer steps to her till my the water was around my knees.
She reached out and pressed her fingers on my forehead.
By the ti I opened my eyes she had withdrawn her hands.
"You’ve been touched by death before." She said.
"Excuse ?" I said startled.
"You have died." She said looking at closely.
I gave an uneasy laugh. "I’m alive."
She shook her head. "No. Not now but as I said you have died before."
I gave a very confused laugh. "If I ever died I would rember. I’ve had horrible near death experiences. A lot of them if I might add. But I’ve never died."
I pressed my palm flat over my heart, my eyes flickering.
"You are confused. You have it all wrong. I’ve never died." I insisted.
"The song." She said. "It’s a death song. It can only be sung when soone is dying and a siren offers to bring that person back to life."
"But you sang the song to ." I said.
"Because you have already heard the song before. A siren has sung it for you before." She insisted.
"I’ve never seen a siren before." I swore.
"You must have or you can’t rember." She said. "When a siren sings the song and brings soone back to life, the song remains stuck in their head for life."
"Maybe that’s how I know the song." I explained. "Maybe soone sang it soti ago and I picked it up. That’s why I can hum it."
She smiled as she shook her head. "No Jasmine. Now you see, other creatures can hear the song. Wolves and whatever. They will hear you hum it, but they will never rember it. Never. It can only be rembered if it has been used on you. Do you understand now?"
I tried to, but none of what she was telling made an iota of sense.
"Well maybe I heard soone who had it used on them sing it to ." I said reasonably. "My healer Urma was a very well experienced and-
Pearl shook her head, that now permanent smile stuck on her face. "It hasn’t been used in over a thousand years. And even if it has, soone who has heard the song cannot hear you sing it neither can you hear them sing it."
She looked at with piercing eyes.
"You had died before."
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