Far away far away from the sea Who: Cloelia and Nixie Where: Somewhere in the river When: Early afternoon
Tipping that boat over had been the most fun that Nixie had had since she left the ocean, but it'd been days ago. Days ago and she hadn't even got a nibble of human because her sister was so insistent about that and it just wasn't worth listening to her nag on and on like Nixie knew that she would. At least it'd seen the last day of the landwalkers clogging up the river like they had any right at all to it. Which they didn't. They all had their homes, why didn't they go there and have their fun? Nixie had seen that they had land-boats so they could just have races on those. Instead they made messes of the river and scared off the best food. Nixie made a vexed noise in the back of her throat as she floated a ways beneath the surface of the water, letting the current carry her downstream. She was rapidly growing tired of mussels, clams, crayfish and the plant life that the landwalkers couldn't scare off with their loud engines. Nixie craved fish. And not a whole bunch of minnows that hardly filled her stomach at all, but an actual fish that would leave her all the way full with maybe some left over to leave to the turtles or little fish so that they could get bigger. Or if she couldn't have that then she'd have settled for a nice, plump human. There was the only good thing about having been stuck in that disgusting tank with that vampire: humans meals. As many as she could eat. Sigh, she wished humans would be so accommodating out here. They just didn't understand how far from the top of the food-chain they really were. Vampires ate them. Merfolk ate them. Kelpies ate them if they were the right age, even ondines sometimes. Although truth be told, Nixie counted vampires among the landwalkers and should one fall into the river she wouldn't say no to trying a bite. See how it tasted.
And she still couldn't wrap her mind around the idea that Charlene could think highly enough of any landwalker to want to mate with it. No, no Nixie wasn't over that and she wouldn't be until Charlene came to her sense. She'd always been the oddest of their pod but a landwalker? It was insanity of the highest degree! Sometimes Nixie suspected that having been away from the ocean for so long had addled her sister's mind and little things like this served to do nothing but confirm that fact. Except Nixie had met those other two mermaids, Melia and Cloelia, and neither of them seemed to have gone as soft on the landwalkers as her sister. So it's really just got to be her. Disappointing. If Kendra could see her then she'd lose it. Probably for the better that Kendra wouldn't ever leave the ocean. Nixie snorted and moved her hand upwards suddenly to create a little splash of water that startled a nearby duck into flapping its way into the air. Flying. Why would anything want to fly? Everyone knew that all of the best things were under the water.