MERMAIDS!!! 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️ // One-On-One // CLOSED

Caspian shook his head slightly. "You can't treat this like a game, kid." He replied. "It isn't."

"I'm not treating this like a game: I'm being serious. I want to experience things outside of the kingdom, and you seem to know the open waters."

Caspian shook his head. "Fine. But don't go crying to me if you get hurt." He said tiredly.

"I won't come crying to you if you don't want me around," Tyler sighed. "And you won't regret it. Well, you probably will, but that's hardly the point."

Caspian shook his head. "And if I tell you to do something, you do it. I don't care if you think it's beneath your noble sensibilities or shit like that, you do it, got it?"

Tyler's eyebrows raised. "If you give me a shit ton of orders, I ain't following them. You can't just expect me to follow everything you say."

Caspian gave him a flat stare. "Then die." He replied. "Because I'm only going to ask you to do something so that you don't get killed. My line of work is dangerous."

"Oh, I'll do what you say if it involves my life, but not if it's something stupid." He glared.

He rolled his eyes. "And god forbid i possibly ask a noble to get his hands dirty!" He snapped sarcastically. He started swimming away. "You wanna come with me? Fine. But keep up."

"If anyone should keep up, it's you," Tyler sighed, catching up and overtaking quickly. "I'm the fastest swimmer in these waters."

"Yes. But you should stay behind me." Caspian replied as he took a turn, heading down towards an abyss, diving into the darkness.

"Well then swim faster," Tyler huffed under his breath, but he followed the dark-tailed mermaid anyway despite the danger.

As they got deeper into the darkness, Caspian cast a spell to create a small, pale illumination around them, lighting up the darkness for a few feet in each direction. He gave a low hum deep in his chest, that echoed through the water. A homing call.

"What are you doing?" He hissed, just managing to hear Caspian's humming. "What is it doing?"

Caspian glanced at him. "Feeding the sharks. If I don't, they terrorize the locals." He replied, as a host of sharks gathered around them. Most were normal, but some bore the marks of magical interference.

"You're feeding them….with noise?" The thought ran though Tyler's head. "How the fuck are you doing that? They eat flash, not sound waves."

"I'm not feeding them yet." Caspian said with an eye roll. He pulled something from his belt pocket, and cast a quick spell, then threw it into the center of the sharks. It grew into a mass, and the sharks started eating. "The humming is a summons." He explained.

He rolled his eyes, sighing. "You coulda just said that!" He sighed, voice annoyed.He was slowly starting to regret his decision, but didn't show it.

"Sorry." Caspian said with a shrug. He wasn't exactly sure…what to say to this person. For a long time, his only interaction with others had been with his mentor, and…his mentor hadn't been a good person. Caspian touched the strands of white in his hair.

"Is this all you do? Feed sharks?" This wasn't what Tyler was expecting. He had been expecting magic and rituals and that kind of stuff, and all he found was shark feeding.

Caspian suppressed another eye roll. "No. This is just what happened to be on my schedule today."

"So then what do you normally do?" He asked, staring at the other merman.

"Lots of things." He replied with a shrug.

"Like what?" He was genuinely wanting to know, but it seemed like Caspian wasn't going to answer.

"Practice. Make sure the boundaries are still complete." Make sure my mentor still can't return and finish the job of killing me. "I don't know. Depends on the day."

"Do you have a favourite activity?" Tyler knew he was being a little annoying, and he was kind of trying.

Caspian shrugged. "Not really." He said softly. The sharks finished eating, and swam away one by one.

"Are you sure? Everyone has at least one thing that they prefer to do. Even someone like you must have to."

"Someone like me?" He echoed, starting to swim back upwards. "And what do you mean by that?"

"Whoa!" Tyler defended, moving back slightly. "I don't mean it in a bad way! It's just…well, you seem like a loner. So I was just trying to say….you know what, nevermind."