Gilded Bay Sirensong

She followed his scent, irritated that he had left her— not that she paid mind to him when he was near unless she desired to relieve some frustration. But that he had gone without her word rankled the woman, and it was with a fury in her eyes that Meteora trailed his scent. She thought of what she would do upon finding him; dragging him to the earth with her teeth, lacing his body with wounds that would make it difficult for him to move very quickly at all.

The scene that greeted her, however, was the obedient Astraios sitting quietly amongst two women. Their voices were the tidal flow of the Sea's own tongue, and the sound was a balm for Meteora's ire. "Sisters," she greeted them in their shared language, confident that she was correct; the Nereides were scattered along all the Sea's edges.