(No No no! Its not you! I'm so sorry, this weekend was hectic with hw but I'm back, so sorry for the wait. Your writing is great!)
Kieryn was powerful. Not in the sense of being a monarch or having control over others, but more in herself. The way her lithe body cut through water, any twist or bend and her body would follow smoothly, the oceans bending to accomadate her. It was invigorating ot be so free and wild. Admittanty being free meant she didn't particularly know where she was going, the ship she had managed to escape from unfamiliar to her regular captives, but then again times were changing.
Arching over a boulder, Kieryn found herself diving into a sink in the ocean floor, surrounded by jagged rocks but not deep enough for light to be absent. Just close enough for her to stay hidden to prying eyes. The perfect home and resting place. Now all she had to do was find food.
Cautiously, Kieryn swam to the surface and poked her head our of the water, surveiling the surrounding ocean until her gaze caught on the faint outline of land a bit away. Tilting her head curiously, Kieryn made her way towards the shore, occassionally breaching the surface, letting her scales catch he light. Humans liked shiny things right? they were so easy to please, or at the very least, naively lure in. Kieryn smirked to herself as she spotted a small cottage, small yet comfortable and more importantly, isolated. No one would pay any mind to the dissapearance of someone this far from the villages.
Kieryn stopped shy of just reaching the shore, pulling herself up onto a nearby slate of rock jutting out from the shallows.
She took in a deep breath and started to sing, a mournful and gutteral song, some story she had created long ago of some tragedy or another, completely fabricated but it seemed to pull at the right heartstrings on most people. Usually that or her mere appearance would lure men in jsut long enough fir her to yank them down to the depths of the ocean where she could feast. Usually. She had expected a lonely husband or curious young lad to come out of the rustic abode but instead, a young woman came over to the shore. Kieyn's eyes widened ever so slightly in surprise as she took in the girl's appearance and her familiarity. Kieryn knew she didn't know the girl but something about her called to kieryn from deep within. She slid down from her rock and snaked up to the shallow pools along the beach, softly muttering 'ocean's daughter' and 'girls of sea foam' outloud, to see if something sparked in the girl to garner some attention.