forum Touch The Sky//One-On-One//Closed

Started March 03, 2019 by @gracehustle

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As soon as he reached the surface he took in a gasping breath of air followed by coughing up water that he had inhaled. Keiran spread his wings out across the water to help himself keep afloat and managed to tread the water.

Nautia stuck her head out of the water, her tail flicking back and forth to keep her afloat, "Are you alright?" She asked, surprised at how her voice sounded above water. She glanced at his wings and looked back at him, "What are you?"

"Yes I'm alright thankyou. I'm a winged human…are you? A mermaid?" He asked turning to face her.

"Yes I am," She looked at his wings again and backed away slightly, "Can you fly?" was her next question. Breathing air was a weird feeling, she didn't like the fact that her hair was sticking to herself either, and she dipped her head underwater, coming back up afterwards.

"Yes…well..not now because they're wet but yes I can." He answered her question "I didn't think mermaids were real but I guess I was wrong."

She looked around and nodded, "We're real." She said, "Do you need to get to land?" another dip under the water and she popped back up, easily staying afloat from her tail.

"I do, do you know if there's any nearby? I can't fly when my wings are wet." Keiran asked watching her gracefully dip in and out of the water.

"There's a small island nearby, can you swim to it?" She tilted her head slightly and looked at him, glancing at the sky as well, "I can lead you to it but we have to make sure no planes fly overhead."

"Yeah I should be able to, thank you for helping me." He glanced at the sky before looking back over at her. "I'm Keiran by the way."

She nodded and smiled softly, "Nautia." She flicked her tail underwater and swam a little ways away, motioning for him to follow, "Follow me, it's not too far away."

"Well it's lovely to meet you Nautia." He answered before following after her, slowly unable to swim as fast as Nautia. He used his wings to help propel himself forwards but it hurt to do so with his injured wing.

"It's nice to meet you too Keiran." She said, waiting for him to reach her before swimming a little ways away again, "Are you hurt?" She asked, pointing to his wing.

"Um…yeah a bit but it should be fine." He answered looking over at his mangled looking wing, he hadn't had much of a chance to focus on his injury. It was a bit worse than he originally thought but at least he hadn't been killed by the humans.

She glanced at his wing and dipped under the water for a moment, coming back up. She didn't know anything about wings or wings on people and she nodded, sure that if he said it was ok that it would be fine.

(uuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh im gonna say it
i love this and really wanna do one with you @@gracehustle)

Keiran followed her through the water, swimming as quickly as he could although he knew she could probably swim much faster. He watched her tail gracefully sway through the water at ease while he probably looked the equivalent of a log trying to swim.

(uuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh im gonna say it
i love this and really wanna do one with you @@gracehustle)

(Aww thx! Maybe we can do one, I just think we have several going right now)

"Do you need help?" She asked him, swimming a little closer to help him if needed. The island was in sight now and it didn't look like much, it was mostly sand with several trees and boulders dotted throughout, enough to make a decent hut if you tried. She studied his wings as he got closer, completely amazed by them.

"No, I'm okay thankyou for the offer." He answered, looking up and seeing that they were nearing the island. Keiran noticed that she had seemed very intrigued by his wings. "You can ask anything you want, I owe you that much." He said politely, referring to his wings.

She nodded and smiled lightly, "I'll wait until you get to the island, you seem like you need to focus on swimming right now." A quick glance at the sky and she saw that it was still steadily getting darker, her amazing vision from having to see underwater helping her see the stars already.

Keiran nodded and kept swimming, he glanced down at the deep dark water and wondered what lie below the surface, just out of sight.

Soon they were quite close to the island and Nautia stopped a little ways away, her tail touching the sand as she swam a little closer.

Eventually Keiran was able to touch the ground and trudged through the water rather than swimming.

"Will this island work?" She asked, watching him from where she had to stop so she didn't get stuck on the land.

"Yes, it's perfect" He turned around to face Nautia. "Thankyou I really appreciate everything you've done." Keiran said sincerely.