The Merman, My Man
Then, I brusquely pushed Gary to a corner and locked myself inside the cabin, so that he couldn’t attempt sabotage.
I slowly approached the glass tank—which was over a meter tall—and climbed the ladder placed over it. I found Mary floating on the surface, her eyes closed as her body drifted along the faint red liquid. Her upper body was naked, baring her fair, beautiful skin, and her blue, smooth, dazzling tail gave her the appearance of mermaids from fairytales.
She was asleep, her pretty face appearing to have been carved out of crystal. I suddenly remembered her look of despair in that mirage I saw before, and somehow couldn’t bear to wake her and pull her back to reality’s cruelty, but I