Thank you to @mossypidder for this list of prompts!
Day 6: Midnight
There's a bit of a story with this one.
There once was a young mermaid, who wished for youth and beauty above all else. Even her love, who assured her he would love her even as she grew old, couldn't stop her from making a deal with a witch. She wished for scales as luminous as the stars, and fins that glistened like the auroras above.
Not knowing what it would cost her.
Yes, the witch gave her what she wished for, but she was cursed.
Cursed to wander the galaxies for eternity. Cursed to swim amongst the endless seas that she wished herself to match.
"But what of my love?" She pleaded, already too late to go back. The witch, with a wicked smile, gave her two compasses. One, that always pointed towards her love, and one that always pointed away. Though lost in the countless galaxies she was, the compasses may well have been blank.
What was worse than that, was she knew she would remain long after her love had withered away.











