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00:02Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30I learned fast and performed it right back to me.
00:33Thrilled, I shot the whole thing and sent it to my professor to brag.
00:37He called me back screaming.
00:39You idiot! Didn't you notice the razor-sharp teeth?
00:41The long claws? The powerful tail? That's not a merge.
00:45It's more like a siren out of mythology.
00:48It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
00:51The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down,
00:55dragging them somewhere no one will find them,
00:57and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
01:00Get out of there! Get out! Get out!
01:04But it was already too late.
01:06He was already swimming toward me.
01:12Two months earlier, a new male had arrived at Emerald Atoll,
01:15settling alone on the far side of the island.
01:18Merfolk live in family groups,
01:19but young males often leave the pod they grew up in to seek mates and join new colonies.
01:23It promotes genetic diversity,
01:25a smart evolutionary strategy.
01:27The merfolk were soft-featured,
01:29almost doll-like.
01:30This one was all edges,
01:32looked like a fallen angel.
01:33His teeth were pointed,
01:35his claws significantly longer than any shallow-water murs.
01:38Black hair,
01:39green eyes,
01:39a black gold tail roughly eight feet long.
01:41This was clearly a powerful deep-sea murs who had left his pod and come to Emerald Atoll seeking a
01:46mate.
01:47I usually observed the merfolk through underwater cameras stationed around the island,
01:51but once,
01:52while boating near the atoll,
01:54I spotted him.
01:55I sent my drone after him and watched him cut through the waves,
01:58chasing down a marlin doing nearly 70 miles an hour.
02:01He caught it effortlessly,
02:03slicing the fish open with his claws.
02:05The blood drew sharks and orcas from the surrounding waters,
02:08but none of them dared approach him.
02:10Deep-sea mer were clearly the unchallenged apex predators of the ocean.
02:13When he drifted past my boat,
02:15I couldn't help staring.
02:17You're amazing!
02:18Of course, he couldn't understand me.
02:20After humans discovered this planet,
02:22there had been a brief surge of interest in merfolk research,
02:25but the excitement died down fast.
02:29Merfish intelligence was only slightly above orcas.
02:32They were omnivores, living mostly on kelp and seaweed,
02:36occasionally supplemented with crabs, oysters, and small fish.
02:40And there was zero chance of crossbreeding with humans.
02:43Most researchers moved on to studying beast folk.
02:46As for me, I'd originally studied beast folk too.
02:50Isla, Isla, Isla!
02:54I have to attend a university conference
02:56and we'll probably be away for a week.
02:58Again?
02:59Yep.
02:59You're running out of time, Isla.
03:01Your graduate thesis deadline is fast approaching.
03:03But...
03:04You better have your topics settled by the time I get back.
03:06I believe you can do it.
03:08I'd been alone on Emerald Atoll for three months.
03:11If not for my cleaning drone and internet access,
03:14I'd have dropped out long ago.
03:16But after hearing me speak, the mer stopped.
03:19Those cold, piercing eyes locked onto me.
03:21A chill crawled up my spine, even though I was perfectly safe on the boat.
03:25He sliced off the choiceless cut from the marlin's back with one precise sweep of his claws and tossed it
03:30onto my deck.
03:31I'd just been fed by a mer.
03:33He was different from the others.
03:35He's smart and powerful.
03:36I could see my thesis writing at home.
03:38I might graduate early.
03:40If this mer could find a mate during mating season,
03:42he'd stay with the Emerald Atoll colony.
03:45By next spring, there could be two or three intelligent, powerful mer pups born,
03:49and I could study hybridization traits between different mer subspecies.
03:54I named the deep sea mer Opal.
03:57His black gold tail shimmered like a black opal under moonlight, flashing with iridescent fire.
04:02Mating season lasted three months.
04:03But two months in, Opal still hadn't found a mate.
04:07He hunted massive prey every day, often tossing the best cuts onto the dock,
04:11giving me a meal of fresh sashimi or pan-seared fish.
04:14He only ate the belly meat himself, discarding the rest.
04:17Before long, young males from the colony would slink over and drag away the leftovers to present to the females
04:23they were courting.
04:23He'd inadvertently helped several pairs get together.
04:26Merfolk were drawn to strength.
04:28A male who could bring down enormous prey easily won female attention.
04:31But this idiot fish had never once attended the underwater courtship dances.
04:35I consulted my professor, who said merfolk were social animals.
04:40Males typically left in groups of two or three brothers.
04:42A solitary mer had likely been separated by accident, or abandoned, forced to grow up alone.
04:48That would explain why this one was such an exceptional hunter.
04:51Without a family's protection, he'd had to become powerful to survive the ocean's dangers.
05:00It also meant he probably didn't know the courtship song or dance.
05:03Without performing the courtship ritual, none of the young females would even know he was available.
05:08Of course he didn't have a mate.
05:10Once mating season ended, Opal would leave Emerald Atoll with nothing to show for it.
05:15I could feel my thesis slipping away.
05:17I had to do something.
05:19It was just a song and a dance.
05:21I'd teach him myself.
05:22I pulled up recordings of merfolk courtship songs and waited at the dock.
05:27Opal arrived, dragging another massive tumor.
05:29The warm light softened his cold features.
05:31I knew he was dangerous.
05:33But merfolk had no recorded history of harming humans.
05:36I approached him slowly.
05:38Opal.
05:41Opal, that's the name I gave you.
05:43Merfolk could only produce simple tones.
05:45They had a basic language, but communicated through ultrasound.
05:49Their vocal anatomy didn't support complex human speech.
05:53Neither did their intelligence, for that matter.
05:55He opened his mouth.
05:56Opal.
05:57Clear, precise, perfectly pronounced.
06:00He could speak.
06:01Research on deep sea mer was scarce.
06:03Perhaps some subspecies had this ability.
06:06My thesis was going to shake the entire field.
06:09Opal!
06:10I pointed at him, then pointed at myself.
06:13Isla.
06:14He immediately understood that Opal referred to him.
06:16Opal.
06:17And Isla, to me.
06:18Isla.
06:19Remarkably intelligent.
06:20I turned on the speaker I'd compared.
06:23I'm going to teach you the courtship song.
06:25Once you learn it, you sing it for whichever mate you choose.
06:28He seemed confused, but I knew he wouldn't hurt me.
06:31Soon, the lilting melody of a merfolk courtship song floated from the speaker.
06:34I had to admit, merfolk singing was beautiful.
06:37The next instant, Opal's expression changed.
06:40He drove his claws through the speaker in one violent strike, shredding it until the song went silent.
06:47I jumped back in terror and ran.
06:50Those claws would crack my skull just as easily.
06:52He saw me fleeing and lunged.
06:54I glanced back mid sprint, and saw he'd hauled himself onto the shore, floundering forward, trying to chase me.
07:00But on land, he was slow.
07:02Nowhere near fast enough.
07:04Isla.
07:04Isla.
07:05His voice was plaintive, almost begging.
07:07Isla.
07:07No wonder Mik said merfolk lured humans to their death.
07:10That's exactly what he sounded like now.
07:13Luring me back so he could eat me.
07:15The next day, I found a grouper on the dock, alongside a speaker that had been painstakingly pieced back together.
07:22Opal hovered a hundred meters out, neither approaching nor leaving, just watching me.
07:27I might have overreacted yesterday.
07:30Research consistently showed merfolk were among the friendliest species known.
07:34He'd probably just been startled that the speaker could produce mersong.
07:37I waved him over.
07:38He drifted ten meters closer, waited, and when I didn't run, cautiously closed another ten meters.
07:44Several minutes passed before he was just a few meters away.
07:48You don't like the speaker?
07:49What if I teach you myself?
07:54Could he actually understand human speech?
07:56I'd been listening to the colony's courtship songs through underwater equipment for weeks.
08:00I knew them by heart.
08:02I sang the first line, ready to sprint the instant his claws came for my head the way they'd come
08:06for the speaker.
08:07When Opal heard me sing, his eyes lit up, he repeated the line back.
08:10I sang the full courtship song, and he echoed it perfectly.
08:14I'd expected to need a dozen repetitions, but he reproduced the entire song flawlessly on the first try.
08:19His eyes never left me. He didn't even blink. It made me uneasy.
08:22Opal, you're incredibly smart.
08:24When you meet a merm you fancy some day, you may sing this tune for her.
08:29Considerate tuition.
08:30That night, deep in sleep, I was jolted awake by a familiar melody.
08:33Furious, I threw open the window and locked eyes with Opal.
08:38Shut up!
08:38I snapped at him. The singing stopped. I finally got a good night's sleep.
08:43But days later, Opal still hadn't found a mate despite knowing the courtship song.
08:47Was I really going to have to teach him the dance tune?
08:51I was a strong swimmer and certified diver.
08:54When I was a child, trips to Thalassa were all the rage.
08:57My parents brought me here on vacation after visiting the shallow water Merfolk.
09:01The next day, we boarded a cruise ship to search for deep sea Mer.
09:04But the waves were particularly rough that day, and I fell overboard.
09:09Over ten days later, my parents found me unconscious on the shore, burning with fever.
09:14The fever wiped my memory of that entire period.
09:16The assumption was that a shallow water Merfolk pod had rescued me.
09:19After that ordeal, once we returned to our home world,
09:22my parents enrolled me in swimming and diving lessons.
09:24I never imagined that years later I'd end up back on Thalassa,
09:27and that those skills would actually prove useful.
09:29When you see a female you like, have you tried singing the courtship song for her?
09:33He nodded. I was furious.
09:35He'd already sung the courtship song and still got rejected.
09:37These females had no taste.
09:39Opal was the most stunning mer on Emerald Atoll.
09:41Do you know the courtship dance?
09:44He shook his head.
09:46Fine. For the sake of my thesis, I'd go all in.
09:48I turned, walked into the room, slipped on the silver imitation fishtail, and then dove into the sea.
09:54I mimicked the courtship dance movements, twirling through the sea.
09:57Opal's eyes grew brighter and brighter, unblinking, fixed on every movement.
10:01Like.
10:02That was the first word he'd said to me besides my name.
10:04Idiot.
10:05If he liked it, then he'd better learn it.
10:06I was counting on those mer pups next year.
10:08When the dance ended, he retracted his claws.
10:10Opal pulled me into a full embrace, carefully circling my waist, resting his head on my shoulder,
10:16his tail pressing close against mine.
10:19Like Isla.
10:20Compared to my clumsy, slightly ridiculous imitation of a mer dance, Opal's was effortless and powerful, devastatingly beautiful.
10:27He sang something similar to the merfolk courtship song, but more ethereal, more haunting.
10:31Those impossible eyes held nothing but my reflection the entire time.
10:35Like a sailor bewitched by a siren, I found myself swimming toward him, wanting to dance with him.
10:39The moment my hand touched his, I snapped out of it, dancing with a fish.
10:43I'd lost my mind.
10:44I turned and swam hard for shore.
10:46Behind me, Opal slowly lowered his hand, watching me leave in silence.
10:55I'd barely peeled off the wet tail when my professor called, and his furious voice erupted from my comm device.
11:01You idiot!
11:02You told me you found a deep sea mer.
11:04Didn't you notice the razor sharp teeth?
11:06The long claws?
11:07The powerful tails?
11:08That's not a mer.
11:10It's more like a siren out of mythology.
11:12It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
11:16The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down, dragging them somewhere no one
11:21will find them, and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
11:24Get out of there!
11:25Get out!
11:26Get out!
11:27So my gut had been right all along.
11:29I'd always known Opal looked different from the merfolk.
11:32He wasn't a deep sea mer at all.
11:33He was a new species.
11:35An extremely dangerous new species.
11:37Which meant the Emerald Atoll research station, with zero physical barriers, was a death trap.
11:42Until my professor secured funding and the station was reinforced, I had to leave immediately.
11:47I grabbed the essentials and launched my yacht.
11:50As the island shrank behind me, I let myself breathe.
11:53I hadn't said goodbye.
11:55That thought sat heavy in my chest.
11:56Whatever he was, he'd never actually hurt me.
12:00My professor called to make sure I'd gotten out.
12:03I'm well clear of the atroy!
12:04Thank God.
12:06I thought the worst you'd cost me was my academic reputation.
12:09I didn't expect I'd nearly have to attend your funeral.
12:11But I had no appetite for his jokes.
12:13My voice was shaking.
12:16It's here.
12:18Opal's black hair billows in the wind, his sleek tail cutting through the water like an arrow.
12:23He caught up in seconds.
12:24His expression was colder than anything I'd ever seen.
12:27I told myself it was fine.
12:29The hull was metal.
12:30I was safe.
12:31Then five pointed claws punched through the cabin wall.
12:34The metal tore apart like paper.
12:36I fell backward.
12:37The clumsiness on the dock had been an act.
12:40The moment he boarded, his tail split slowly into two human legs.
12:44He walked toward me step by step, like something out of a nightmare.
12:47Don't run.
12:48All that friendliness had been an act.
12:49From the day he appeared, he could have slaughtered me and the entire colony anytime he wanted.
12:55But he hadn't.
12:56Had it all been a game to him?
12:57The moment his prey tried to run, the mass came off.
13:00Don't leave.
13:02My Isla.
13:04And then his lips pressed against mine.
13:05He was kissing me.
13:07Why?
13:07He pushed a smooth hard pearl from his mouth into mine.
13:10His tongue forcing it to the back of my throat until I swallowed.
13:14Only then did he pull back.
13:16A satisfied smile spreading across his face.
13:18You can't escape now.
13:20My mate.
13:23The instant I swallowed the pearl, everything went black.
13:27Opal took me like prey.
13:28His tail reformed, and he held me against his chest as he shot through the ocean, heading somewhere unknown.
13:34My comm device lay abandoned on the deck, my professor's voice still coming through.
13:38What do you mean it's here?
13:39Isla, talk to me.
13:41A long silence.
13:42Then a sigh, and the sound of another call going out.
13:44Hello, is this planetary security?
13:47I woke up in iron shackles.
13:49I was inside a cave on some island.
13:50The only exit was submerged.
13:52Even if I could somehow dive through it, I'd face nothing but open ocean on the other side.
13:56A few meters away, he was slicing a massive fish into fillets with a poker face.
14:01Blood ran into the water.
14:02The metallic smell was everywhere.
14:04It looked like a scene from a slasher film.
14:06Was I next?
14:09He looked up.
14:10That cold expression was even more terrifying than before.
14:13Liar!
14:14You can't escape.
14:16Before, he'd only ever said a word or two at a time.
14:18Now he was speaking in full sentences.
14:20Fluent, precise, like he'd know how to talk all along and had simply chosen not to.
14:25An animal would just kill you.
14:27But something intelligent enough to take hostages was something you could reason with.
14:31What exactly did I lie about?
14:32His expression grew angrier.
14:34You courted me first.
14:36Me?
14:37I accepted, and you ran!
14:40You always lied to me!
14:41I'd sung the courtship song to him, danced the courtship dance.
14:46From his perspective, I'd been proposing, and he had accepted.
14:51I softened my voice.
14:53This was all a misunderstanding.
14:55I'm a merfish researcher.
14:57I thought you were a male mer who'd come to join the Emerald Attor colony but didn't know how to
15:02court.
15:02I was teaching you.
15:04His fist slammed into the cave wall, punching out a chunk of solid rock.
15:08I didn't want to imagine what would happen if that had been my skull.
15:11I should never have accepted that reassignment.
15:14Shut up.
15:16You wanted me to court those stupid, weak merfish.
15:19It took a long time for the rage to subside before he spoke again.
15:22His voice was calm, but with something unhinged underneath.
15:25It doesn't matter.
15:26Only stupid merfish court that way.
15:28My inherited instinct tells me this is how we do it.
15:32We take our mate and hide them away.
15:36Everything my professor said had been true.
15:38Why couldn't he have told me sooner?
15:40He pushed the raw fillets toward me.
15:43Eat.
15:43I was about to refuse, when hunger slammed into me like a wall.
15:47I wanted that fish more than I'd ever wanted anything in my life.
15:50I devoured every last piece.
15:52He watched with a look of satisfaction, entirely unsurprised.
15:56As if he had known this would happen.
15:58After eating, an overwhelming drowsiness hit.
16:01I slept again.
16:02When I woke, he was slicing fish.
16:04I ate again.
16:06Days passed before the hunger and exhaustion finally faded.
16:09I demanded answers.
16:11What did you do to me?
16:12He took my hand and guided my fingers behind my ears.
16:15On each side, I felt openings.
16:17Developing gills.
16:18My skin had changed too.
16:20Smoother and slicker.
16:21Like it was no longer meant for land.
16:23I could probably stay underwater for hours now.
16:26The pearl.
16:27Am I gonna turn into a creature like you?
16:31Yes.
16:33You'll become a siren like me.
16:36You'll never go back to the human world.
16:38I was going to turn into one of them.
16:40Never see my family again.
16:42Trapped with this monster for the rest of my life.
16:44Monster.
16:45Even if I'm not human anymore, I'll never be with you.
16:48I hate you.
16:50I'd rather spend my life with a pot of murphine.
16:52His jaw clenched.
16:54Eyes went bright with fury.
16:55But underneath it, just for a second, I saw something break.
16:59Then I'll keep you chained here forever.
17:01You won't see another human.
17:03You won't even see a mur.
17:05From that day on, my body kept changing.
17:07More and more like a fish.
17:09The openings behind my ears grew from two to six within two weeks.
17:13I didn't say a single word to him.
17:15The chains were long enough that I could reach the cave entrance.
17:18I'd tried submerging my head, and I could last hours now before I heard him coming back.
17:22If I could just get the shackles off, I could escape.
17:25Today he returned dragging only a small grouper.
17:27But his black gold tail bore a long gash.
17:30Iridescent scales fell away with every movement.
17:32He was injured.
17:33He didn't even have the strength to shift into legs.
17:38He just lay down and closed his eyes.
17:40I walked over and checked his breathing.
17:45Too bad I didn't die.
17:47You must be so disappointed.
17:49Obviously.
17:49I wish you'd drop dead.
17:52What happened to you?
17:53A pot of orcas.
17:56About thirty of them.
17:58Tried to take my territory.
18:00I won, of course.
18:02Just a scratch.
18:05Orcas.
18:06The ocean's roaming thugs.
18:08Thirty of them.
18:09And he won.
18:10I died a little inside.
18:11I truly provoked something terrifying.
18:14I kicked the grouper he brought into the water.
18:16I don't want grouper.
18:18I want salmon.
18:21Tomorrow?
18:22I want it today, you useless fish who can't even land a mate.
18:25Either let me go or go catch some right now.
18:30Tomorrow?
18:30I want it today, you useless fish who can't even land a mate.
18:34Either let me go or go catch some right now.
18:36He hauled himself up and swam back out through the entrance.
18:40After a long while, he returned with several salmon.
18:42The wound on his tail had turned white and waterlogged from the salt.
18:45Actually, I don't want salmon anymore.
18:47Too rich.
18:49I want something lighter.
18:50Sea bream.
18:51He dragged himself back out to catch sea bream.
18:53He brought the bream back.
18:55Before I could say another word, he collapsed.
18:58With his eyes closed, he looked completely harmless.
19:01The wound had gone raw from the seawater.
19:04I cleaned it.
19:05I sat beside him and closed my own eyes.
19:07I should hate him.
19:11I was floating in the ocean, but I knew I was dreaming.
19:14I turned back into a child.
19:15I saw another child about my age.
19:17Was I dreaming?
19:18I reached out to him.
19:20Please!
19:21Help me!
19:22He swam toward me, and I saw that his lower half was a slender tail.
19:25A mare.
19:26He rescued me, set me on a reef, and caught food for me.
19:29A good myrrh.
19:29I wanted him to take me somewhere with people.
19:32I want to go home.
19:33My parents would be worried.
19:34But he couldn't understand me, so I taught him to speak, word by word.
19:37He was smart.
19:39In just over ten days, we could communicate.
19:41I learned he wasn't a myrrh.
19:43He was a siren.
19:44Sirens were solitary.
19:46The unchallenged apex predators of the deep.
19:48Sirens never raised their young.
19:49From the moment a hatchling broke free of its egg, it faced the dangerous ocean alone.
19:53Only those who survived earned the name siren.
19:56I was very innocent as a child.
19:57Innocent in that way only children can be.
20:00The kind that cuts.
20:01So you don't have family or friends?
20:03You've always been alone?
20:05Not even a fish friend?
20:07Don't you get lonely?
20:10What's lonely?
20:13Lonely is when there's no one to play with you.
20:15No one to talk to.
20:16No one who misses you.
20:18I didn't know what lonely was before.
20:21So I wasn't lonely.
20:24Now I will be.
20:25I'm sorry.
20:27After I go home-
20:28I'll come back every summer to play with you.
20:30I'll talk to you.
20:31And I'll miss you.
20:32Let's make a pinky promise.
20:34I swear.
20:35He copied my gestures solemnly, extending his little finger, careful not to nick me with
20:39his sharp eyes and hooked it around mine.
20:41Cross your heart.
20:42We're best friends.
20:44I'll never forget you.
20:46Best friends.
20:46I'd planned to stay a few more days before having him take me home.
20:50But the sea wind and the monotonous diet made me sick.
20:53A fever set in.
20:54Everything blurred.
20:55His face went white.
20:56It's my fault.
20:57You don't belong in the sea.
20:59I'll take you somewhere with humans.
21:01They'll help you.
21:01He carried me on his thin back, racing through the ocean, trying to keep the waves from soaking
21:06my hair.
21:08When I'm better, I'll come back for you.
21:13Isla, I'll wait.
21:14He slipped back into the water, and only after people found me and carried me away did that
21:19small shape in the distance finally disappear.
21:22But I never kept my promise.
21:24I forgot all of it.
21:27If I hadn't been reassigned to my professor years later, I might never have returned to
21:31Thalassa in my life.
21:33And Opal had come to Emerald Atoll not for the merfolk.
21:36For me.
21:37And what had I done?
21:39I'd made him think I was courting him.
21:41He accepted.
21:42I ran.
21:43He thought I'd betrayed him twice.
21:45In his fury, he took me.
21:49Liar.
21:50I hated you.
21:52You are a monster.
21:53I'd never be with you.
21:55Sirens heal with terrifying speed.
21:57Within hours, the vicious wound had closed.
21:59Opal opened his eyes and saw me still obediently shackled.
22:02Only then did he relax.
22:04Opal.
22:04You're awake.
22:05Does anything still hurt?
22:07Even if you've changed tactics and you're trying to soft me up, I won't let you go.
22:11Opal.
22:12You're awake.
22:13Does anything still hurt?
22:14Even if you've changed tactics and you're trying to soft me up, I won't let you go.
22:18I'd forgotten our promise.
22:20Everything on Emerald Atoll had been a misunderstanding.
22:23Liar.
22:25Don't think saying that will make me release you.
22:27My goal now wasn't escape.
22:28It was to comfort this poor fish who'd been let down for over a decade.
22:31I don't want to leave anymore.
22:33I'll stay here with you.
22:36Then you'll be my mate.
22:38Soon, here, we'll be growing an egg.
22:41Didn't you want to study my offspring?
22:43Isla, why not carry them yourself?
22:46I'm a human, you know.
22:47You swallowed my pearl.
22:49Your body has already been altered to carry Siren Young.
22:57Honestly, I wasn't entirely opposed to him.
23:00Interspecies marriage laws between beast folk and humans had already passed.
23:03Plenty of humans were into it.
23:05But carrying an egg was beyond anything I'd mentally prepared for.
23:08Can we just date first?
23:10A purely platonic relationship?
23:13I explained what platonic meant.
23:14He got angrier.
23:17You're lying again, I'll never believe you.
23:19But when I asked him to unlock the chains so I could swim, he agreed.
23:23Just as I thought.
23:24All bark, no bite.
23:26But impossible to convince.
23:28While Opal was out hunting, I dove into the water at the cave entrance and discovered small bioluminescent fish.
23:34I caught a few and snacked on them.
23:36When I surfaced, my body was burning.
23:39Especially there.
23:40I tried to deal with it for a long time, but the relief wouldn't come.
23:43Opal returned and saw the remaining bioluminescent fish.
23:48Merfish eat those during mating.
23:50You ate them?
23:51How was there something like that just swimming around?
23:53Humans really had studied this planet nowhere near enough.
23:55It kept getting worse.
23:56My face was burning.
23:58And not just from the effect.
23:59I couldn't believe I was about to say this.
24:01I reached out to Opal.
24:03Can you help me, Opal, please?
24:07He just stood there, looking like a kicked puppy despite being a creature that could kill 30 orcas.
24:12You always do this.
24:13You asked me first, then you took it back.
24:16Every single time.
24:17I pulled him closer by the wrist.
24:19I like you.
24:19I want you.
24:21Now, you really have to help me.
24:22I need you.
24:24He didn't move.
24:25His eyes were fixed on me, wounded and wary.
24:27You're begging me now, but tomorrow you'll hate me again.
24:31I don't believe you.
24:32Those green eyes looked so lost, like he was already bracing for me to disappear.
24:36So I kissed him first.
24:37He froze.
24:38Then his arms came around me so tight I thought my ribs would crack.
24:42He was gentle at first, trembling even.
24:45Like he was afraid I'd break.
24:47Then not.
24:48By the end I was breathless, clinging to him, telling him that was enough.
24:51I couldn't take any more.
24:53He didn't stop until my body gave out completely.
24:57The next morning, clear-headed, I processed the fact that I'd slept with a fish.
25:01It had actually felt pretty good.
25:03I might genuinely be in love with Opal.
25:05When Opal saw me awake, he handed me a knife made from shell.
25:08You hate me even more now, don't you?
25:10I forced you last night.
25:12I'd been on the bottom, but I knew full well who'd been forcing whom.
25:15You must despise me.
25:16I've unlocked your chains.
25:18You can use this knife to fierce my heart, then leave this place forever.
25:21Go back to the human world.
25:23And then what?
25:23He'd dissolve into sea foam.
25:25He was pure-hearted and soft underneath it all.
25:27Playing at being a captor when he didn't have the constitution for it.
25:30I really like you.
25:32If you don't believe me, let's do it again.
25:35So we did.
25:36Many, many times.
25:37In the cave at the bottom of the sea.
25:39But he still didn't believe me.
25:42He was convinced I was trying to lull him into dropping his guard so I could escape.
25:46I could only keep repeating that I loved him.
25:48That I'd take him to meet my parents.
25:50That I'd marry him.
25:51He just looked at me with sadness.
25:52You'd even lure me to the human world so they can capture me for research?
25:56Your thesis means that much to you?
25:57Enough to endure all this and seduce me?
25:59I had no way to defend myself.
26:01So I seduced him again.
26:02Easier than arguing.
26:03Until one day I couldn't stop vomiting.
26:05The color drained from my face.
26:07Opal panicked completely.
26:08Remembering the night over a decade ago when I'd nearly died of fever.
26:11I'll take you back to the humans right now.
26:13After this, you'll never see me again.
26:15Didn't you say I'd become a siren like you?
26:17He kissed me with desperation.
26:19I lied.
26:20The pearl only changes a mate's body a little.
26:22Enough to adapt to prolonged life at sea.
26:25Enough for your body to handle me and to carry my egg.
26:28But you're still fundamentally human.
26:29I know you've wanted to leave this whole time.
26:32I imprisoned you.
26:34You hate me.
26:36Just like ten years ago, Opal carried me on his back and tore through the ocean
26:40until I spotted Emerald Atoll's research station in the distance.
26:43The station had been renovated.
26:44It looked completely different from before.
26:46He set me down on the dock, took one last long look at me, and turned to leave.
26:50I called out to him.
26:51The next instant, a metal trap crashed down from above,
26:54caging a powerful siren inside.
26:56Who said you could leave my test subject?
26:58So this was your plan all along?
27:00For your research and your thesis?
27:02You go as far as seducing me?
27:04All to capture me alive.
27:06You win.
27:08That's right.
27:09I was exactly the kind of person who'd do anything to graduate.
27:12After I discovered a new species,
27:13my professor secured a massive research grant.
27:15The Emerald Atoll Station was expanded to several times its original size,
27:19additional researchers were brought in,
27:21and my professor took up permanent residence as project lead.
27:24He chewed me out beyond all recognition,
27:25but had no choice except to clean up my mess.
27:28But the siren refused to cooperate with any experiments.
27:31He wouldn't eat.
27:31Wouldn't drink.
27:32Wouldn't speak.
27:33His aggression was extreme.
27:35The researchers couldn't collect so much as a blood sample,
27:37or a strand of hair.
27:39Finally, I went alone to the cage holding the siren.
27:42You'll die if you don't eat or drink.
27:45What a shame.
27:46You'll only have a siren corpse to study.
27:49In a few months, we'll have a living siren.
27:52Right here.
27:54You're carrying my egg.
27:56It's your child too.
27:58Do you really hate sirens that much?
28:00Aren't sirens supposed to just dump their young in the ocean any don't way?
28:04Pretend you don't know.
28:07My blood, my hair, even my tail.
28:10Take whatever you want.
28:11But you cannot harm our child.
28:13Opal abandoned his hunger strike and cooperated fully with the research team.
28:17Intelligence tests, language assessments, blood samples, everything.
28:22Three months later, a paper emerged that shook the field.
28:25A new intelligent species had been discovered on Thalassa, the siren.
28:29A species with a humanoid upper body and a fish-like tail.
28:32Intelligence comparable to humans.
28:33Capable of understanding and speaking human language.
28:36With extraordinary physical resilience and immense strength.
28:39Everyone left Emerald Atoll to celebrate.
28:41Only I walked alone to the lab.
28:43The caged siren opened his eyes.
28:45No grief.
28:46No joy.
28:46You imprisoned me once.
28:48I imprisoned you once.
28:49We're even.
28:49So, debt paid.
28:51Can I go?
28:52Of course.
28:53Sirens are now recognized by the Interstell Alliance as an intelligent species.
28:56You qualify for full legal personship, same as humans.
28:59You can marry anyone you want.
29:00Mr. Opal, you've never believed that I love you?
29:04But I'm going to propose anyway.
29:06I used some extreme meths to keep you here, but I learned them from you.
29:09Will you marry me?
29:10You don't want our child to be born out of wedlock, do you?
29:14Isla.
29:15You're proposing to me.
29:18When you said you liked me before, it was real.
29:23If I didn't love you, why would I sleep with you?
29:25Why would I carry your egg and actually want to keep it?
29:28We took your blood exactly once.
29:31The only purpose was to test which medications would work on you.
29:35Nobody's doing illegal research with it.
29:38If you hadn't gone and written yourself into some tragic drama,
29:41you convinced I hated you, ready to swim off and never come back,
29:44I would have taken you to meet my parents the next day.
29:46You'd apply for personhood yourself and we'd be married within a month.
29:49You idiot.
29:50You forced me to lock you up so you wouldn't leave.
29:54I'm an idiot too.
29:55I literally taught you courtship rituals and told you to use them on Murphic.
29:59When he just stood there frozen.
30:00Of course, if you don't like me anymore, if you still hate me...
30:05If you're gonna press charges, can you only press them against me?
30:08The next instant, Opal sealed my lips with his.
30:11I closed my eyes and kissed him back.
30:12A long time passed before he spoke.
30:14Isla, from the moment I met you, there hasn't been a single second I didn't love you.
30:19That flimsy cage could never have held me.
30:21If I'd wanted to leave, I would have left any time.
30:23The only reason I stayed was you.
30:24Even believing you hated me, even thinking I was nothing but your test subject, I loved you.
30:28The hunger strait was just to see you.
30:30You threatened me with our child and I still couldn't hate you.
30:35The egg hatched into a human child.
30:37Dark hair, round ears.
30:39He had Opal's green eyes, but aside from that, he looked nothing like a siren.
30:48Is this really our child? Did someone swap him out?
30:52The next instant, Opal casually tossed him into the bathtub.
30:55I wanted to murder him.
30:57What are you doing?
30:59What kind of father are you?
31:01But Finn rolled happily in the water.
31:03His legs fused into a golden tail.
31:05And his ears shifted into pointed siren ears.
31:08Definitely our little fish after all.
31:11Good.
31:12We can throw him in the ocean to fend for himself now.
31:15My baby is going to be the happiest child in the world.
31:18He has loving parents and grandparents and he'll go to preschool and make tons of friends.
31:23You want me to throw him in the ocean? Do you have a death wish?
31:39But that's how I grew up. Never met my parents, let alone grandparents. My only friend was you. And then
31:46you never came back. I waited where we said goodbye for over a decade.
31:50You have me now. You have all my love. You're already the happiest siren in the world.
31:56Then tonight, let's leave Finn with your parents. It's been too long since we were close.
32:01I agreed. The next day my body nearly fell apart. Definitely a supernatural creature. Draining me dry.
32:10The changes of my body didn't stop after Finn was born. I noticed it in the shower. Faint iridescent lines
32:18running along my forearms. Barely visible unless the light hit them just right. Scales. Or the ghost of scales.
32:25I could hold my breath underwater for 40 minutes now. My night vision had sharpened. Food tasted different. Blander on
32:33land, richer in the sea.
32:36Opal, you said the pearl would only change me a little.
32:43I said it would change you enough.
32:45Enough for what? I'm growing scales.
32:49They suit you. That's not the point. The pearl bonds us. Your body adapts to live where I live. It
32:55won't stop.
32:56So what's the end game? Will I grow a tail?
32:58No. You'll never be a siren. But you won't be entirely human either. Something in between. Something new.
33:09Something new. Like Finn. Will it short my lifespan?
33:13No. It will lengthen it.
33:16How much?
33:20Enough to stay with me.
33:21I didn't ask how long Sirens lived. I wasn't sure I wanted to know.
33:26My parents arrived on the weekly supply shuttle. Mom burst into tears the moment she saw Finn.
33:32He's beautiful. He looks just like you, Isla.
33:36Wait till you see his other form.
33:38As if on cue, Finn Spada got fussy.
33:40Golden scales rippled across his lower half.
33:44A tail emerged, thrashing. Mom screamed.
33:48Dad caught Finn before he hit the floor.
33:50Held him awkwardly.
33:52Examined the tail with the calm of a retired engineer.
33:56Flexible. Good muscle tone.
33:59You were like this as a baby?
34:02I don't know. No one was there.
34:05The room went quiet.
34:06Set Finn in the water basin I kept nearby for exactly these situations.
34:11Well, he won't be alone.
34:13Finn splashed happily, tail glinting gold.
34:17That night...
34:19Isla. Hmm?
34:20He must love you so much. I've never seen anyone so terrified of losing someone.
34:24He's dramatic.
34:25No. He's terrified you'll disappear.
34:28I won't. I know, sweetheart. Make sure he knows too.
34:32The research station expanded again after opal species was formally classified.
34:37My professor brought in a whole team of specialists.
34:40Marine biologists, linguists, geneticists.
34:44One of them caught my attention.
34:45Dr. Lina Hsu, a 28-year-old ocean acoustics researcher who'd graduated top of her class.
34:51She was specifically interested in siren vocalization.
34:54The frequencies opal could produce that no mer could.
34:58The range is extraordinary.
35:00In love.
35:02He can generate infrafound that affects the nervous system.
35:05That's likely the basis of the mythological siren song.
35:08It isn't magic.
35:09It's targeted neurological manipulateate through sound waves.
35:13Comforting.
35:14Can I get a few more recording sessions with him?
35:18Can I get a few more recording sessions with him?
35:21Opal agreed easily.
35:23He'd been cooperative with the team since the day I proposed.
35:26But I noticed something.
35:27Every time Lina entered the room, Opal shifted his body between her and me.
35:31Subtle.
35:32Unconscious, maybe.
35:34His nostrils flared slightly when she passed.
35:36One day, after Finn was asleep, Opal spoke.
35:40That woman.
35:41Lina?
35:41She smells wrong.
35:42Wrong how?
35:43She has siren scent on her.
35:44Old, faded, but there.
35:46You're sure?
35:47I know what my own kind smells like, Isla.
35:49She touched a siren, and it wasn't me.
35:52I ran a background check the next morning.
35:55Lina Shu, born on Colony 7.
35:57Ph.D. from Central University.
35:59Published 12 papers on cetacean communication.
36:02Joined a deep-sea expedition to Thalassa's southern hemisphere two years ago.
36:07Everything checked out.
36:08Spotless record.
36:09I pulled the expedition report, a routine survey mission.
36:13No incidents logged.
36:14No contact with unknown species.
36:16But the mission had lasted six months,
36:18and Lina had spent three weeks separated from the main team after a submersible malfunction.
36:24The official report said she survived on emergency rations until rescue arrived.
36:29Three weeks alone in the deep ocean.
36:31I brought this to Opal.
36:34That's when it happened.
36:35Can't know that three weeks in deep water, alone, when she came back alive?
36:39Something kept her alive.
36:41That's when it happened.
36:43Can't know that three weeks in deep water, alone, when she came back alive?
36:46Something kept her alive.
36:48That night, I couldn't sleep.
36:50I activated the dock cameras on a hunch.
36:532.47 a.m.
36:54Lina walked to the end of the dock, alone.
36:56She stood at the edge, looking out at the black water.
36:59Then she raised her hands to her lips and blew a sequence of notes.
37:02Low, haunting, not merfolk song.
37:05Something answered from the deep.
37:06A sound that made my bones ache, even through the camera's audio feed.
37:10And far below the surface, captured by the underwater sensors, a shape moved.
37:15Massive.
37:16Larger than Opal.
37:18Dark red.
37:20I showed Opal the footage at dawn.
37:22That's a siren. Male. Mature. Bigger than me.
37:25Bigger than you? I thought you were-
37:26I'm young. Sirens don't stop growing. That one is old. Maybe centuries.
37:30Centuries? Is he dangerous?
37:32Every siren is dangerous.
37:34But this one-
37:35He replayed the footage.
37:36He's not hunting. He's searching.
37:39For Lina?
37:40For his mate.
37:41She didn't stay with him.
37:43She left.
37:44Do you know what happens to a siren whose mate leaves?
37:47I remembered his words from long ago.
37:49The pearl was part of his life force.
37:51Given freely. Irreversible.
37:53You said it's worse than death.
37:54The bond screams.
37:56Every moment apart is agony.
37:57The instinct to find your mate overweighs everything else.
38:00Rational thought. Self-preservation.
38:02Eventually, even recognition of the mate themselves.
38:06They go feral.
38:07Hmm.
38:08How long does it take?
38:09Depends on the siren. Weeks. Months.
38:11For one that old and powerful.
38:13He's held on longer than any siren should be able to.
38:15But he's close to the edge.
38:17The next night, the underwater cameras caught him again.
38:20Closer this time. Close enough to see details.
38:22A massive siren. Easily ten feet of dark crimson tail.
38:25One eye clouded over.
38:27His claws were extended gouging trenches in the sea floor.
38:30But when Lina's melody drifted down from above, he went still, pressed his palm flat against the ocean floor and
38:35stayed there, listening.
38:37Until the song ended, then the dark shape sank back into the abyss.
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