While everyone was getting ready for the spring spawning, Andreas didn’t even try to pretend that he was excited. A newt by birth, he never wanted to be like the others: deep in his thoughts, always gloomy, he wrote songs about eternal unrequited love. Even his friends couldn’t get him out of the melancholy. The only living thing that could make him smile was a tiny axolotl named Sol, who had chosen Andreas’s home as a refuge from the great sea troubles.
Andreas kept a secret, and this secret made the days he spent dreaming very special. On the other hand, this secret was also a curse that never let him go. An old cameo in a delicate frame depicted a mysterious girl. Every evening, Andreas looked at her curly hair and fine features. If only he knew who she was! What if she was a human? Oh, he would sing her his love songs!
The laughter of mermaids was brought by the stream, it seemed that they were swimming nearby. Little Sol looked at the cameo for a moment, and then grabbed it and hurried away. For the first time, the brave Sol knew what he was doing, and for the first time, he wasn’t afraid of everything.
One of the mermaids lifted the cameo from the bottom and immediately showed it to her friend.
Amazed, Andreas hid behind corals. One of the girls looked exactly like the cameo! How come that they had never met before?
