like a lazy ocean hugs the shore

the rocks work as hard as the stars, to be what they are

"It isn't my behalf you'd be speaking on, but on the behalf of your kin." The Voice points out. As for Remi? Well that's annoying. "I leave it to the two of you then, to decide how to handle this. If it's true that the new governor is going to be a problem for us, I'm sure you can think of ways of dealing with him. And if he'd reasonable, then so be it." She's only encountered the Alchemist a few times now, and he's been as Wessex describes him.

Still...with Ludo meddling about...

Stilling these thoughts for now, the Voice sadly shakes her head. "Perhaps in time, but like others of this world, the old gods hold the souls of the mermaids tightly. Theirs is not a system I can work with." Yet, her eyes hungrily say.

Yet.