"Are you dreaming again Trevelyan? Off to bed! Tomorrow is a new day and hard work awaits us all."
The foreman was right, of course, but the sunset was just too beautiful...
"Dorian? Are you thinking again? We're safe. Nothing will happen."
Tarasyl'nin was right as usual. They were safe, but for how much longer…
The sea is beguilingly beautiful and terribly destructive at the same time. There is grace and power in every wave.
Humans have always found ways to subjugate the world. What hubris! In the not too distant future, humans will be long forgotten, but the world will still exist, because true power lies in nature!
Progress and prosperity require resources, you just have to know how to promote them. And humans themselves are not this stupid after all… just… if it weren't for the constant greed for MORE!
One of the most powerful and beautiful elements is water. Magical and playful, it lies there like a mirror or it roars and thunders with the most spectacular violence of the elements.
Nevertheless, people have little fear of it! People love and need this element. And they soon began to exploit it, because the true treasures lie hidden in the depths!
The newly built oil rig went well. The crew members were tough people. No job was too awkward or too difficult for them; they had chosen to live surrounded by water 24/7. And the wages weren't bad either!
Most of them chatted with their families and friends after work, they scrolled through their smartphones or watched TV or drank and had fun.
Only one of them stood on deck in the evening and looked out to sea. In stormy weather as well as on calm evenings.
He literally gazed into nothingness. Into the distance, into the darkness, into the stillness of the night, which was never still on the sea! It rushed, even if the water hardly moved.
A soothing sound for him. He loved the solitude out here when all his colleagues were already asleep or otherwise occupied.
Trevelyan was a dreamer par excellence! He loved fairy tales and read a lot. And he loved the sea. He especially loved stories and legends about sea people. The melancholic veil of hope and sadness that clung to these stories fascinated him.
Did these hybrid creatures really exist?
Sightings were only ever faked pictures and videos, today's technical gadgets on the PC made so many impossible things possible and almost believable.
Was it all just dreams and nonsense?
Were all these things just myths and tales from the imagination of slightly crazy fairy tale lovers?
Trevelyan didn't really care. He loved reality just as much as his imagination.
And somehow he sometimes combined the two.
Wasn't it said that as soon as you see sea foam, it means that a mermaid had died? Tragic, of course, but also somehow romantic. Humans turn to ash and dust, but the sea folk become fluffy foam. Somehow bizarre but also beautiful.
He loved the movie “Splash” and especially the fairy tale about the little mermaid, his mother always had to read it to him back then. He then dreamed of being the prince and definitely choosing the fishwife and there would be a happy ending and blah blah blah...
His childhood was long gone, the mermaid had long since become a merman for him and he had also taken off his rose-colored glasses. So now he was sitting in the middle of the ocean on an oil rig, daydreaming...
The alarm sirens went on again!
There had been another underground explosion.
The crew was on full alert.
"People are monsters! They walk over dead bodies, all for more power and wealth. Nothing has changed." Tara looked sad, but also annoyed. Her brother was in that strange mood again.
"But we're descended from them. We're part of them. I wonder what it's like up there..." Dorian mused.
"You're incorrigible!" Scolded Tara, but she was smiling. She grabbed her brother's hand and then they swam into the grotto.
Later, they sat comfortably by the spring.
"What are those people doing up there? I just can't believe everything I hear and read. Either they're worse than anything you know or they're kinda all right." Dorian asked himself.
Tara shook her head, but remained silent.
"I'd love to see a real person. At least once in my life." Dorian sighed.
"More often wouldn't be possible! Dumbass! They'd kill and eat you right away. And you would die very quickly on land." His sister replied and shook her head again, her black hair swaying gracefully through the water.
"I'm not a guppy, so listen up! I wouldn't let myself be killed so easily. I would..."
Tarasyl'nin interrupted: "You would have neither the air nor the voice to defend yourself. We speak a different language. You are such a dreamer! Tsk tsk..."
"That's another point. I would like to hear people speak for once..." Dorian had a playful, dreamy look on his face.
And suddenly everything shook, the walls trembled, the little fish swam in shoals for cover!
(OC Tarasyl'nin by @tarasylnin-lavellan )