Selkies Stories Novels & Stories

A head of a sealion, the cloak fell away, revealing a humanesque body of a woman, but covered with thick fur and webbed hands and feet. The men blinked, hesitating to answer as I got to my feet smiling at the beautiful woman. Her large black eyes moved, seeing my expression and she stepped back. "You're a Selkie!" I squeaked in delight. I turned slightly, seeing the men look at me confused. I blinked at them, then the woman. "You're an original Fey." I smiled at her. The muscle in her brow twitched. "Tell me what you know about my kind?" My head tilted, thinking for a moment, unsure what she meant, but I felt an odd longing, buried in a fog that covered my mind outside of my base emotions an

>> Yohan “Your highness, can we really?” One of the hyter sprites, Nia, asked me and I nodded. Hyter sprites are sort of fairies that can shape-shift into sand martins. They usually help out lost kids. I stood on the big tree stump while I addressed the dwellers of the forest. I told them it was fine to come to the palace and there was no longer any need to stay away. “Your majesty, you’re no longer angry?” A selkie asked. Selkies are seals that have human form on land.

Answering an advert for work, I spent the second half of winter and the start of spring on the Coast of Stones. With warm weather, the trader caravans would start moving again and so would I. Leaving this place above the sea and moving away from the seafaring Selkies who made up most of this village’s population. The only non-Selkies in the village were four other ruminant shifters and a widowed ostrich shifter. The Selkies spent the winter catching and canning their fish to sell. They were good, hard-working, loyal shifters, and I blended in with them well with my human’s dark eyes and caramel brown hair. However, their love of different types of pickled or fermented fish, capers, and cabba

As it receded, so too did the forms of the seals and, in their places, stood tall, humanoid figures. And Ava didn’t need Emmaline’s supercharged senses to glean the animosity wafting from the willowy group. Marnie sighed and reluctantly reached for the door handle. “Wolves, meet the Selkies.”

Ragnar chuckled filthily. "Oh, Ragnar, please, that's too much," Magnus scoffed, but there was a smile on his face as he looked over his shoulder at Ronan. I was racking my brain trying to remember all my mythology. A selkie was a seal that could turn into a beautiful woman. If you took her coat, you could trap her in her human form, and she was beholden to you until you gave it back. A kelpie was a water horse, notorious for devouring humans and spitting their entrails back up on the shores of bodies of water.