The Lies She Lived

She told her pair everything that night. Or at least, most of it.

He listened, giving her his full attention, and not interrupting to ask the many questions he must have had, not even once.

'My pair has a high level of emotional intelligence.'

She explained to him about things men did not know existed around them, and he never once doubted her. She felt his unconditional trust in all that she told him seeping through the pair's bond. She marveled at his lack of doubt when she knew how a human's mind was narrow that way, their subconscious and true instincts were one with the nature around them, but their logic tended to deny things their eyes could not see, like other spiritualities. And so those steered away from them.

She did not tell him everything at once.

The love they shared and the bond that formed between them helped the heiress to be frank with him about the hidden secrets of the universe. But there were some safety laws that neither sea folks nor nymphs could easily break, a