Open Your Eyes

‘This Finity’

Merfolk are known to be quite the hoarders. They often steal, keep and search for precious little trinkets they find interesting and beautiful.

Most of the time, these treasures are used eventually as courting gifts. They’re little tokens of admiration, a representation of the mer’s fondness for the other.

However. There’s one gift they’re not too easy on giving out.

When a merperson is deeply taken by their partner, and wishes to cherish them for as long as life allows them, they pluck a scale off their tail; the biggest, glossiest of them, and offers it to their partner as a sign of loyalty, and love.

The process is incredibly painful, but to them, if accepted, the reward is worth the grief.

By Anders Røkkum

Atsuko Goto

they’ve always said, when you feel a random shiver, that a rabbit has run across your future grave