Sacrifice

"Goodbye Daniel". Alec had stood a reasonable distance to the sea but he could still make out Daniel's cottage from the distance as the cold sea water caressed Alec's skin right to his abdomen. His legs had begun knitting together into his torques tail that shimmered in the dark. Streams of tears had dropped off his eyes, he wouldn't imagine such horrible day could ever surface it's existence. Alec could've have rejected not to follow his father but knowing fully well, his father king optum is a strict man and whatever he said that brought him to humans land must be urgent.

Alec swam deeper with his Dad king Optum into the sea. They were sea creatures regarded as a myth and they did very well in hiding themselves. The place the mermen and mermaids live was a place the human have never for once navigated with their ships, marine ships, boats, canoes, or whatsoever floats on water or drives beneath the sea, their habitat could only be reached with strong tails like that of Alec, king Op