Stereotypes and Broken Lace PART 1
Oct 4 2013, 3:50 PM EDT
| Post edited: Oct 4 2013, 3:50 PM EDT
I'm Lacey. All I remember about my mother is that she was beautiful, with flowing pink hair...Pink hair, yes. The only in the sea, grandmaid and grandman told me..The only thing I remeber about my father is his laugh...Like a dancer..like freedom, like a tinkling bell..And all I remember about my sister, Analei, is that she wasn't a swimmer, and her fears clung, even though she was one of us..she had to let those fears go..she had to..and she did. Brave, Analei. She was so brave..A tear scrapes my cheek. I remember nothing about my cousins, Anola, Perstinah, and Scrielle, and my brother Favereldo. I remember lots about Pearl, and Fawn. The first ones with human names in the family...I was the second. Pearl and Fawn were twins. So, whenever I peek out at the surface--and the sunset..People see me. I don't care. I give them a lovely wave and pop under. They have no evidence they've seen me--they've never caught a mermaid except After. But After wiped everybody's memories and wind powered back to the ocean. The thing about After, is that she is too powerful. I worry about her. Oh, I always get off subject. SO, I feel like a stereotype. We once found one of those 'Little Mermaid' disks underwater--supposedly one of the humans thought it would be funny if we saw it. And Liseterilla didn't think it was so funny. We have a giant flatscrenai (Felista and Meridon INSIST it's called that) that somehow got dropped under. Mistali and Liseterilla, and After, of course, are tricky, cunning, strategetic, and smart..they twisted into finding how to play 'Little Mermaid' on the flatscrenai and I saw the photos pick out on the flatscrenai and cringed. I felt like a stereotype and danced into my flower bed. Pristina, grandmaid and grandman, told me my mother was a dancer. A brilliant dancer. The only thing I actually earned from my mother is this aquamarine necklace..But I was in her crystal felt and found a bit of lace.
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