{"id":23260,"date":"2025-03-29T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=23260"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:28:02","slug":"mermaid-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/mermaid-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ah the legends of mermaids and not the Little one.\u00a0 Though Disney’s version is not the Hans Christian Anderson one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mermaids\/Sirens have been in myths and legends for thousands of years.\u00a0 Are they real?\u00a0 Are they stories made it up as a cautioary tale for sailors?<\/span><\/p>\n

We may never know.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for Sylum … of course they’re real.\u00a0 \u00a0Sparrow want’s nothing to do with them, but there is a crab fisherman who can parley with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Randolph sighed when he heard the high pitch scream from his newest crew member.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was only one thing that could cause a hard bitten thirty year old crab fisherman to get that high pitch of a scream.<\/span><\/p>\n

He glanced over to Cam, his Second, who sighed as heavily as Randolph.\u00a0 “Your girl must be visiting.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“She’s not my girl.”\u00a0 Randolph heaved himself out of his chair signaling for Cam to take over.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Sure. We’re the only boat in the Bering frozen ass straight that has mermaids appear.”\u00a0 Tone indicating he wasn’t taking his captains bullshit.\u00a0 “Liefr who has weird shit happen all the time, doesn’t get mermaids.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Beauregard does.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Cam just gave him a look, before dismissing him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Randolph got no respect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He headed down to the deck, carefully walked across the wet and frozen surface.\u00a0 \u00a0When he got to the crew, most of them were chatting with their guest while the new guy was staring at them like they were all insane.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are crab fisherman who go out into an unforgiving sea, with temperatures under 0 on good days.\u00a0 Of course they were insane.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Hey Syrena.”\u00a0 He glanced over the edge to see her gnawing on a crab sitting on one of the pots.\u00a0 “Out for a swim?”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Enki has business down the coast I thought would come say hi.\u00a0 I never see you.”\u00a0 She tossed the crab into the water, then plucked another out of the pot.\u00a0 “You look old.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It had been a rough season, and his feeding schedule was shit.\u00a0 \u00a0Plus he hated being away from his Mate, it’s rare they split up but for this season they needed to.\u00a0 It was a good thing they stopped televising their runs, or this would awkward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re planning a trip further south, see the old islands.”\u00a0 Randolph assured her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her expression stated she didn’t believe him.\u00a0 “Promise?”<\/span><\/p>\n

He knew what a promise to a mermaid was, and had learned that listen.\u00a0 “I will do all that I can to make it south this summer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Syrena rolled her eyes, but grinned at his clever wording.\u00a0 “Fine.\u00a0 We’ll have to go swimming.”\u00a0 She tossed the dead crab into the water.\u00a0 “By the way if you go south you’ll find a good crop.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And now he owed her, the sneaky bitch.\u00a0 \u00a0There was a reasons Mermaids weren’t messed with in history.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Run off.\u00a0 See you in a few months.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She pushed upwards and gave him a kiss on the cheek, then dived into the water.\u00a0 \u00a0The new guy may have yelped when he realized there was more than one in the water.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Okay guys you heard the lady – lets get these up and head south.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“On it Captain.”\u00a0 Jose his foreman ordered the men back to their posts then grabbed the new guy.\u00a0 “So what do you know about Mermaids….”<\/span><\/p>\n

Randolph was going to have to contact Richard and let him know they were going to the Caribbean for vacation, or the mermaids would have their soul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Ah the legends of mermaids and not the Little one.\u00a0 Though Disney’s version is not the Hans Christian Anderson one. Mermaids\/Sirens have been in myths and legends for thousands of years.\u00a0 Are they real?\u00a0 Are they stories made it up as a cautioary tale for sailors? 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