Merchild

Merchild

This is from a story called The Lady of Sorrow. I plan on doing a series of pics to illustrate this excerpt.

“Pray tell me, Master Avenel, why the fishermen’s children wear such wonderful jewels when they play. I had imagined them to be poor folk.”

“I’ll warrant you have seen young Sally.” said Avenel with a laugh. “Only one other among the fishers owns such wealth. But nobody envies her, or would try to take the thing from her. Oh, no.”

“Why not?”

“Well, by the way she came by it. `Tis said that last Summer, Sally was playing with her doll down by the rockpools and when she turned away a mermaid’s child stole the toy. Young Sally fled, weeping. On the following day when she returned to look for the doll, the mermaid’s child rose from the sea at the edge of the rocks where spume flies highest.”

“A mermaid’s child!” interjected Rohain, fascinated. “have you seen the merfolk sir? What are they like?”

Avenel related how the merchild came, and in her shell white hand she held out the pearl necklace, which she gave to Sally in atonement for the theft. In the words of the alien accent, she told the mortal child that her mother had bade her do so. Then she looked at Sally with her green eyes before flipping away with a flicker of iridescent scales, to plunge beneath the breakers..

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