Persephone was not quite sure if she was having a good day, a bad day, a day somewhere in-between all of the above or what. It had been like that for several days now. The ondines did not have a television to watch but the house that Alejandro kept for them did and she had snuck away a few times to watch it. The news had been confusing, a jumbled mess, but what she understood made her think that maybe it was better if she just kept to the water and encouraged the others to do the same. If there were demons about then they would be easy targets thanks to how fragile they were, but at least in the water they stood a fighting chance for running away. But Persephone was more worried about it than anyone else seemed to be and it bothered her quite a bit. Her mother had wanted her to stay with the family, but she had decided to make her way to a more secluded pond in the forest instead. It was not overly large, she could swim from end to end in a few minutes, but it was deep and still.
And apparently not as secluded as she had thought it was. At the sound of someone's steps her eyes fluttered open and she was horrified to realize that there was a person standing on the edge of the water. Without a thought, Persephone submerged herself. But he had seen her! As she really was. People were not supposed to see that. They could see her other form all that they wanted - the form that she was hurriedly shifting into - but this one was private. For the eyes of other ondine, the kelpie and merfolk only. Other people who understood their way of life and would not try to study them or whatever might be done to a race that lived forever but could attain human form. And of course there was the part where they could kill men just by sleeping with them. "Hello," Persephone called when she resurfaced, now-blonde hair floating in the surface around her as she treaded. Maybe he would have only just caught a glimpse of her and blamed it all on the sun or reflections or whatever it was that people had come up with for centuries to explain away things that made no sense. "You startle me. I didn't think anyone else would be coming out this far today. And it's rude to stare." Not that she cared but humans were supposed to be a lot more conscious about that sort of thing than she was.