Have you ever heard the story of the sea? Its quite the tale, you see I can tell this tale, if you can stay to listen.

         Once upon a time their lived a beautiful siren, she had eyes the color of the ocean, hair white as snow, she was known as the heart of the sea, Mirah, she was called. These sirens were not of those you hear in your normal children books, they lived in a small village in Galway Ireland, close to their mother, the sea. Whenever sailors would pull up to the coast they would greet them with songs that never cease, and food for gods, these men were enslaved by their beauty, their wives believed they had died at sea.

     Mirah, was different she wasn't allowed to see the men, she was the heart of the sea after all, she had to work, her mother always gave her things to do, until one day Mirah decided to meet the sailors, ignoring her family, she loved the lights she saw in the town, she ran the wind in her hair to the festival for the sailors, she partied and lived until, she saw the handsomest sailor in galway, he had brown hair, and eyes the color of summer grass, she decided to try dancing with him, he was the first guy to turn her down, she persisted and they soon danced.

   Under the light of the moon the danced till day break, many men fell in love with this ocean heart at first glance, her beauty was unmatched, but she only wanted this one, she and him ran off together to be alone, but no one can run from the sea.

"Mirah, the sailors come and go, but listen to whats reminding you, capture these men dancing a reel around you"

    Mirah felt herself lose control of her body, she danced with all the men and cheered, leaving Bay alone only to grow in jealousy, she walked to him and told him.

"I'm here to dance till dawn come dance with me"

"He looked at her and smiled

"I would like to talk to you privately come with me"

They walked toward the sandy beach, and he spoke, what Mirah only comprehended as greed in his words.

"Dulaman Gaelach"

Mirah stared at him in confusion "do you want Irish seaweed?"

"You are just like Irish seaweed, you see seaweed from the sea is the best in Ireland"

"I don't understand"

"When I was on the harsh ocean I could only wish to meet someone like you, it is not your beauty that attracts me but the coldness in your eyes, you have eyes that don't show emotion, orbs that convey the feel of the ocean, you remind me of the ocean.

"The ocean has much emotion, when you just said I have none"

"The ocean shows no emotion, it does not favor one boat over another, instead it wants all of the boats"

Mirah was confused, why is this man not falling for her beauty like all the others, her mom told her as a child that no sailor can resist a siren, especially a siren that carries the oceans heart.

"Will you be back tomorrow, will I see you again?"

"I don't know maybe, but I must leave"

And like that Mirah was gone, but not for long, she made many visits to bay, weather it was on his ship or at his home they soon became close friends, but Mirah felt something new a feeling she thought only thrived in humans, love. Her love grew for him everyday, he soon asked her to live with him, but of course not everyone was happy.

IN REALITY

"Why wasn't everyone happy"

"Why do you talk while I'm reading"

"I was just wondering"

"Son, the ocean is a greedy woman she feeds off of everyone that's what makes her equal, she loves attention, she has everyone's story in her hand and doesn't like those who change their story"

"Can you tell me more about the ocean"

"Fine,real quick"

"The ocean is home to all life in our world and the next, she was once a calm maiden but grew to be a glutton for everything,the known and unknown, the soul of the ocean that started this was a little girl who never got anything, on her tenth birthday her family sold her off to be a young boys bride, the young man abused her all of her life and when she turned twenty she birthed their child. Everyday she would ask the sea for a better life for her and her child, and every day the sea rejected her calls, one day after her husband beat her and her child half to death, to save them both from this world she jumped into the ocean, for she couldn't leave her child, her heart, alone to face the world, they were reborn as the oceans soul, and the oceans heart, inseparable, for the child who never got her way, she created her own "children" from the sea and gave them a part of her only emotion, greed"

"But I love the beach"

"Of course everyone loves her,and everyone knows her too. Back to the story"

THE STORY

Her love grew for him everyday, he soon asked her to live with him, but of course not everyone was happy.

The mother of all sirens, Calliope, she had jet black hair, the eyes of the moon, and wore the finest silks, when she heard of her daughters love she felt repulsed, he was a human man, men can not be trusted, he will hurt her and use her for his own greed, she called Mirah to her place to talk.

"Yes mother"

Mirah said wondering why her mother looked so mad.

"I heard of your lover"

"Ah yes, I love him mother, I almost forgot to ask you, may I please live with him, we wish to make a family"

"Mirah, don't go out into the cold, the wind and rain are blowing, they shall scratch your pretty face and carve your porcelain cheeks, for the fire is flaming gold, in this house the musics always flowing"

"But I love him I wish to be his bride"

"He will hurt you, I saved us once by giving us a life in the ocean, I cant save you again"

"No one asked you to forever save me, I am not a babe anymore, I can make desicions for myself"

"I do this because I love you"

"Do what?"

"From this point on you shall not leave this house till all the songs are sung"

"Mother, our songs are endless, and some, deadly"

"I do this to keep you safe".