ᴛʜᴇ ɢᴏᴅꜱ' ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ

#MYTHICAE

TOLD BY LANI. INDEPENDENT. SELECTIVE. PRIVATE.

UNWELCOME BY MAN

' you look radiant. ' compliment immediate as he steps within her home. lips curl into faintest of smiles as fingers fidget at his side. ' then again, you always do. '

it was a childhood friendship that had blossomed into more the older they had gotten. they had every intention of being mates and being together until the end of their lives. they were looking forward to raising some children together for the betterment of their kind. but their dreams were cut short after a particularly terrible encounter.

while out on a hunt, they were discovered by a larger human vessel. they decided that it was one they should ignore, not wanting to risk their lives over it. but before they could dive deep enough, a harpoon came rushing through the water, aimed right for marea. but the shot never came. instead, it hit him as he swam to take the hit for her. immediately, she reaches for him, hoping to find a way to help but he shoos her, tells her to leave and get back to the safety of the pod.

she watched then as he was dragged out of the ocean, as he was hoisted up to the ship. she couldn't leave at first, frozen in horror as she watched him yanked over onto the ship. it was only as she watched them loading up a second harpoon that she realized she needed to leave and run away. as she did, she could hear his screams, could hear his mournful song as he was killed atop that fishing vessel.

when she arrived back at the pod, she told them of what happened and they immediately swam back to the spot she'd told them of. they brought his body home and there was an agreement that he would have rather his own pod take his body as nourishment than be surrendered to the abyss. and so they consumed him, marea included, though she did it without looking, unable to see the face of the one she loved while giving him what he would have wanted.

from that moment on, the pods relationship with humans became strained and they no longer partook in trading with them, only interacting when it came to capsizing and devouring the people within.