“That song…it’s gorgeous…” ][For Sal][
@blind-mutant
Mermaid pack
Sal hadn't known how long he had been in this pretty cage. The tank was full and luscious with plant life of all kinds and the water was clear from the top but shifted into an inky darkness where Sal resided most of his days. The air was kept humid and warm, with a shifting screen background and set lighting to change with the days before everything was lit up with the dake lights that Sal himself often gave off in the dark.
He was fed nice things. Tasty things and sometimes the woman who owned his cage would come in and feed him sweet treats from the human world, so long as he sang for her. Sal missed his real home, the wider and deeper ocean with the corals and fish that constantly shifted and changed instead of this sameness and limited deep he lived in, but it was his home now and Sal supposed he had to accept it.
Unless he wanted to get punished again, like the last time when he acted out and bit one of the guests his owner had brought to see him sing.
And today it seemed like she had broguht another one. A pale man who stood, utterly mesmerised, not quite close enough to the water for Sal to touch him, taste him sadly. Still, he was pretty enough from the seating area and the mermaid tilted his head, shifting on the rock he had been laying on to smile sweetly at this human. He got treats when he was nice and he didn't get hurt badly enough to scar.
"I hope my song is pretty, after all, I'm singing it just for you, bright moon." The man looked exactly like the moon Sal remembered from when he had been small and barely bigger than his father's palm. It was....nice to have something similar from the outside world in his cage.
