Merfolk were not, sadly, immune to the contrivance of horrors against their own kind but Hadama saw no reason to darken the conversation by disillusioning Harper of his rosier outlook on the Mer. That would happen soon enough. After generations of keeping themselves 'out of sight, out of mind' it was past time to remind the humans of the people who lived beneath the sea.
And all the good and bad that they came with.
Though it wasn't easy to see in the dark and with their different modes of movement, Hadama tilted his head in acknowledgment of the human's agreement. They had each done what they could at the time, given where they were at and the tools at their disposal. He was unsurprised to hear that Melita had done much of the damage, a flicker of fond amusement warming his eyes.
"Yes. I would have liked to have seen it. In different circumstances." Ones where it wasn't threatening anyone, preferably. Now, however, it would never happen. But he would rather have the lives of his people and those of his friends.
As they reached the Court of Stars Hadama nodded towards the tunnel that served the Merfolk. "I will see you at the Fountain." The water glowed with starlight and the life that had been transplanted there at its creation, bright even on the darkest of nights, and when the King surfaced beside the Fountain it was under the firelight of the guiding torches that burned above the well's exit beside the Fountain.
And all the good and bad that they came with.
Though it wasn't easy to see in the dark and with their different modes of movement, Hadama tilted his head in acknowledgment of the human's agreement. They had each done what they could at the time, given where they were at and the tools at their disposal. He was unsurprised to hear that Melita had done much of the damage, a flicker of fond amusement warming his eyes.
"Yes. I would have liked to have seen it. In different circumstances." Ones where it wasn't threatening anyone, preferably. Now, however, it would never happen. But he would rather have the lives of his people and those of his friends.
As they reached the Court of Stars Hadama nodded towards the tunnel that served the Merfolk. "I will see you at the Fountain." The water glowed with starlight and the life that had been transplanted there at its creation, bright even on the darkest of nights, and when the King surfaced beside the Fountain it was under the firelight of the guiding torches that burned above the well's exit beside the Fountain.
