Love That Bites, Pain That Stays
Shrill cries echoed faintly in my ears, and I prayed to whoever was listening for it to not be what I thought…
The closer I got to Emily, the clearer the cries became, and that's when I saw it.
The pile of mermaid corpses around Emily's feet.
When I got there, she had her hand around the throat of a mermaid, her knife stabbing into their chest with precision, digging out their mermaid pearl and crushing it in one fluid motion.
At that moment, I felt like my heart was crushed into pieces as well.
Wiping the blood on her hands, she turned to look at me. "Marina, I didn't know that you merfolk had differently-colored pearls. I just want white ones… I hear only royalty has pearls of that color,
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