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Yue wasn't nearly as naïve as many thought her, but there were limits. One didn't simply... even in the Fire Nation... go around... like... that... did they?
"Problem?" Zhao asked roughly, raising his eyebrows as he shucked out of his pants to reveal even paler skin beneath, then folded them neatly to set atop his tunic.
"Zhao," gasped Yue, "this beach, these people... they're... Zhao, they're all naked!"
The expression he gave her was somewhere between exasperation and amusement.
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There were creatures in the ocean. This, Yue had known all her life. Turtle seals, whale-walruses, koala otters… these were creatures everyone within the tribe was familiar with. Revered them, in a way. They gave her people food, warmth, clothing, tools. Every creature had purpose, and every purpose was thanked. Here, in the harsh, biting cold, their lives depended on it.
But there were other creatures. Stories of humans with fish tails. Translucent fins, scintillating scales, sleek, powerful muscles. They’d fascinated Yue when she was younger, and though there was enough evidence to prove these creatures were out there, most people went a lifetime without catching a glimpse of them.
Mermaids.
Every region of the world hosted them. Even in the bitter poles, they were there. Somewhere out there, at least.
Sometimes, Yue wondered if they led much more different lives than their land-dwelling counterparts.
Or, at least, Yue thought, as she clasped the betrothal necklace chained around her throat, if they led easier lives.
.
Ever since her engagement had been announced, Yue found herself wandering to the edge of the city to stare at the sunset, as if to count down the days of relative freedom she had left. It was peaceful outside of the towering walls, and the waters had always looked so pretty under the light of the setting sun.
“It’s my duty,” Yue said unconvincingly to the lapping waters. “I have to marry him. If I don’t, it will cause strife within the tribe. I have to. I must.”
The waters didn’t reply, of course.
“We can cooperate,” Yue continued. “My father wouldn’t have approved the betrothal if Hahn was unreasonable. I’m sure, at the very least, we can unite our interests in protecting the city.”
Below the waters, Yue thought she saw the shadowy mass of a seal animal flit briefly.
“The only reason my father would break the engagement is if Hahn did something truly terrible or if… I don’t know, he was accidentally killed during a hunt.”
A splash, and gentle ripples spread in a circular pattern. Yue smiled slightly. So she was correct; there had been an animal lurking within the waters.
“I shouldn’t say that,” Yue chided herself. “That’s horrible.”
.
Day after day, she returned to the waters, sometimes sitting in silence, sometimes talking about her day. More often than not, she’d unspool her thoughts about her impending marriage to Hahn. And without fail, the same animal she’d spotted that day would accompany her. She never managed to discern what animal it was, but she’d spy hints of it, from the dark mass travelling beneath the ice to the ripples and splashes it would make as if to agree with her words.
It was likely a large animal if the size of the splashes were any indication. She knew little else. Of its colouring, of its shape, of anything that could’ve given a hint as to what she was spilling her thoughts to.
One day, Yue had brought along a piece of raw meat, curious to see if it was a carnivorous animal. She’d tossed it into the water close to where she had seen the last indication of a splash before she returned home.
What a surprise it was to see the meat sitting on the ice the next day, completely untouched. As soon as she peered over the edge of the ice, a large splash caught her right in the face, the sound of a tail slapping against the water the only confirmation that it was the creature clearly miffed by her offering.
Raw seaweed? Tossed back.
Seal blubber? A tentative nibble taken out of a corner before it was left on the ice as well.
Finally, she brought a bowl of soup, setting it next to the water’s edge as if in offering.
The next day, an empty bowl greeted her.
It was amusing, in a way. Though Yue had to wonder what sort of high-intelligence animal had been keeping her company.
“What are you?” she finally asked after a week of leaving plated meals. “Who are you?”
A splash, and in the sunset, Yue stared, wide-eyed, as a long tail arched out of the ocean, water sluicing off glimmering crimson scales. It was nothing she had ever seen before. An indescribable beauty, almost otherworldly…
And then it was gone, slipping back into the water silently.
“Mermaid…” she breathed.
.
It was her secret, and it was supposed to remain her secret. Though the mermaid never fully revealed themselves, they seemed to be more comfortable with showing off their tail, lazily flicking it above the waves every so often or even giving her a glimpse as they dove into the depths.
Sometimes, if she was very lucky, she’d even see a flash of pale skin.
But she should’ve known that Hahn would grow curious. He’d been curious for a while, asking – no, demanding – to know where she ran off to at the end of every day.
She just hadn’t anticipated that he’d follow her.
“So this is what you’ve been doing every day?”
Yue paled, turning around to see Hahn pinning her with a fathomless stare.
“You’re giving our food to some animal?” Hahn scoffed. Then he seemed to remember himself, and a sickly-sweet smile spread across his face. “Sorry. I just meant, Yue, surely if you wanted to feed the animals, it’d be better to give them scraps instead?”
“They… have different tastes,” Yue managed.
“They’re just animals,” Hahn sighed. “They’ll be happy with bones. Besides, all animals are good for is for food and clothing. You know this, Yue.”
“They’re not…” Yue bit her lip. “Never mind.”
“Come on, let’s go.”
Yue reluctantly turned to head back with her fiancé, though not without gently setting the bowl of stew on the ice.
.
A week before the wedding, Hahn followed her out onto the ice again, this time with a spear.
“What are you doing with that?” Yue asked warily, hesitant to peer over the edge as she usually would.
Hahn smirked, flicking his hair out of his face. “Hunting. The wedding is in a week, and I’m supposed to provide the centrepiece of the banquet.”
“Right,” Yue said guardedly. “What are you planning on hunting?”
Her heart sank when Hahn approached the edge of the ice, the gleaming edge of the spear made sharper yet under the rays of the setting sun.
“I came out the other day at noon,” Hahn grinned. “And I saw something move underwater. It must’ve been your little friend. Red scales, too. There isn’t anything here that has red scales. Something that exotic would make our wedding the wedding of the century.”
“You can’t!” Yue protested. “That’s not a simple-minded animal, it’s… it’s…”
“It’s what, Yue?” Hahn asked, scanning the waters. “Come on, you can’t possibly think it’s a pet.”
“No,” Yue grabbed his arm, “but trust me when I say you can’t. Please, don’t do this. There are other animals that you can hunt, just not this one.”
Hahn’s eyes hardened. “Let go, Yue. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I knew I should’ve brought this up with your father. Do you even know what animal it is?”
“It’s not an animal,” Yue admitted. “Hahn, you can’t kill them.”
“Them?” Hahn echoed.
He was to be her husband, wasn’t he? It made sense to trust him, to divulge her secrets. How else was a relationship supposed to work? But reluctance stayed her hand, and she found herself at a loss for words.
“You can’t,” she repeated weakly.
And then, a trill.
Melodic, deep, crooning. Yue had heard many a song in her life. The greatest musicians in the Northern Water Tribe had sung at grand celebrations, fantastic orators reciting poems and stories of old. And yet none of them could compare to what she was hearing.
Hahn, on the other hand, was completely entranced. Enthralled in a way that was unnatural. Certainly not in the way he dropped his spear, stumbling closer to the edge, his eyes fixated on something in the water.
“Hahn,” Yue tugged at his arm, trying to shake off the reverie. “Hahn, get away from the water.”
“No,” Hahn murmured. “No. Let me go. I… I need to go to… I need to…”
Something, someone, crested out of the ocean. A head of brown hair, amber eyes, a proud nose. A man.
A man? Human?
No. A smattering of red scales crawled up the man’s neck, as crimson as the tail Yue had seen over the past few weeks.
Mermaid?
The man opened his mouth, revealing sharp teeth.
And then he sang.
Hahn tore himself out of Yue’s grip, diving into the water in a mad scramble. She shouted in alarm, reaching out for him, but her hand missed him by miles, and with a resounding splash, Hahn started desperately swimming towards the man.
And the man… the merman, dove towards Hahn, still trilling that haunting melody. It happened faster than Yue could comprehend. One moment Hahn was bobbing in the water, and the next, he was gone, dragged into the depths, not even a spread of blood in the water to indicate he was ever there.
Neither Hahn nor the merman resurfaced again.
.
She blamed it on a piranha shark.
Her father accepted the explanation after one look at her tear-streaked face. The rest of the tribe too believed her story after Hahn’s corpse was fished out of the ocean the next day, several bites taken out of him, piranha shark teeth embedded into the open wounds.
Too ambitious, she heard the warriors sigh as they dressed his body. He shouldn’t have tried to hunt a piranha shark. Land animals would have been easier. At least he’d have more of a chance on the tundra.
Two weeks later, Yue returned to the ice edge.
She hadn’t even needed to wait a minute before the man appeared before her, resting his arms on the ice. Amber eyes peered at her curiously, surprisingly warm for someone who clearly had no qualms drowning a person.
“Why did you do it?” Yue asked.
The merman lifted a brow in amusement. “He wanted to kill me.”
His voice was deep. It had no underlying musical quality to it, unlike that night. But Yue still remained wary, making sure she was more than an arm’s length away from the water.
“I was going to stop him.”
The merman hummed, tail flicking behind him. His fins were broad, powerful, sending a strong ripple with such a lackadaisical action. “Hmm. I’m sure.”
“I didn’t know mermen could be so violent,” Yue admitted.
At that, he perked up, grinning as if she had unwittingly told a joke that only he understood.
“Merman,” he repeated, chuckling. “How quaint.”
Then he trilled once more, and the same thrall from that night overtook her. But before she could attempt to shake it off, he vanished into the waters, leaving her alone once more.
She had an epiphany, then. The trills, the singing, the drowning…
She paled. How could she forget? Mermaids dominated the fantastical tales she adored, but there were other creatures out there. Other creatures that did not possess nearly the same innocent reputation mermaids did.
