Bab 82: What is my worth anyway: The decision

"La la a laal a."

I woke up. The old man was already up. A beautiful melody came from far away. My heart fluttered. It soothed my soul.

"What is this?" I said.

The melody was too comfortable. The pain in my legs eased up for a moment- or more like I almost forgot about it.

"Are there people here or…" He didn't finish. We took our weapons in hand and went towards the direction of the melody. My body was falling apart but I could still move thanks to the herbs, and despite the pain, I still wanted to go to the shore for some reason. The shore was calling me. I had to go.

There was something glowing inside the water. The beautiful voice was coming out from the depths of the reef. From far away I could see that it had a tail and wings like a bird. Half of it was humanoid and looked to be a girl around the age of twenty. The bottom half was fishlike. A mermaid perhaps? But since when did mermaids have wings?