- Joined
- Oct 17, 2014
- Location
- USA
Sven threw the net over the side, the small boat rocked in the waves as the weights in the net dropped it down quickly, the rope sliding through his hands then slowing as the net caught on something. With practiced ease the muscled in his shoulders and arms tensed then pulled, his shirt straining against him as he heaved back on the rope the net pulling tight and snapping back up. Quickly, hand over hand, Sven pulled the rope back up, the water on the rope giving it some slickness, but nothing the thick fingers were unable to overcome. There was a weight in there, something struggled hard and as it neared the surface Sven pulled harder, years of working the net had built up a lot of muscle in his chest and arms, nothing grew muscle his father used to say than working against the sea.
The net twisted and yanked hard as it came to the surface, getting leverage against the side of the boat he grabbed the net and pulled it up and onto the boat. The large fish within struggled, yet when he had it on the deck of the boat, the fingers that came out of the net shocked him. Within he saw the long fish tail, it was what was attached to it that made Sven's blue eye open wide in shock. A woman's body, eyes that bored into him with a malevolence he had only sense in a storm at the sea. Stepping back as the struggling thing only wrapped itself tighter in the net he sat back looking hard at it and wondering he reached to touch the tail and as he felt the scales the tail jerks.
"A mermaid?"
The net twisted and yanked hard as it came to the surface, getting leverage against the side of the boat he grabbed the net and pulled it up and onto the boat. The large fish within struggled, yet when he had it on the deck of the boat, the fingers that came out of the net shocked him. Within he saw the long fish tail, it was what was attached to it that made Sven's blue eye open wide in shock. A woman's body, eyes that bored into him with a malevolence he had only sense in a storm at the sea. Stepping back as the struggling thing only wrapped itself tighter in the net he sat back looking hard at it and wondering he reached to touch the tail and as he felt the scales the tail jerks.
"A mermaid?"