Nature Chose Me

Waves of a Serpent

by: Serpadraa of Wolfcrown

“Adra! Adra! Wake up, Adra!” I remembered that night clearly. The moon was at the peak of her grace, beautiful and ever so calming.

“Why are you shouting, mother?” But that panic expression on my mother’s face, it was lightless.

“No time to explain, we need to meet your father at the north gate!” Her movement was rash and disordered, she kept pushing me to get out of bed and out of the house. She didn’t even bother to lock the door.

“Outside the village? This late!?” You can’t blame me for being confused, my life wasn’t harsh or cursed by poverty. But I’m not so spoiled that I neglect my mother’s order. I still followed them even if it sounded absurd.

“Talk less, walk more!”

That was what she said, but as we all know, I’m a half-mer. The mer part came from my mother as she is a mermaid, and they aren’t really built to be excel on land like humans do. So she struggled really hard to keep up with