The Secrets

He thought about it for a minute so that he could give her an accurate answer. “Yes,” he told her. “I am happy, are you?”
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She laughed softly. “Well then I’ll just keep talking and get rid of all of the silence.” She told him playfully.

"I am, just... anxious."

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"Mm, go ahead."

“What are you anxious about?” He asked her moving so that he was sat facing her.
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She suddenly started of spouting facts about the wildlife in front of them and around them, having been using her free time to read up on wildlife.

"That you'll regret it. All of it."

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Maxwell listened quietly

“I don’t regret this.” He promised. “But I do miss my sister, that being said I am still happy here.”
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She continued to talk u til they found a small lake and she had run out of facts by then.

"I miss her too. It seemed to have been forgotten, in all of it, that we were friends. She just suddenly decided to hate me."

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"Are you going to swim again?"

“I don’t know what happened with her,” he told her. “I wish I did, but I know how you feel sometimes it’s like I’ve forgotten that she exists without her next to me all the time.”
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“Don’t know, it’s only freshwater with no opening to the sea, so you could always come in with me if this feels a bit better for you.” She told him. “If not then we could sunbathe it’s still warm and bright.” She nodded to the grass next to them. “I’m fine doing whatever you wanted to do.”

"Mm, no. No that isn't how I feel." Catalina laughed quietly then. "That was never healthy, Evan. Your parents took advantage of your nature."

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"Oh, oh no. I didn't mean I would go in."

“Sunbathing it is then.” She told him moving to take her shoes socks off, already having a bikini on from when she was at the beach earlier.
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“I know that now,” he told her. “Still feel some regret though you know, I caused her so much pain when it broke and I didn’t even warn her or tell her why….probably why she doesn’t reply to my letters.” He shrugged. “Anyway enough about the past we have our future ahead of us.”

"Mm. OK."

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""Yeah, whatever." Catalina mumbled

He sipped his drink then going silent, he figured that he had upset up so his best option was to shut up and he went back to watching the scenery.
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She moved to lie on her stomach in a patch of sun.

(( I don't know what to put ))

((Not sure either haha))

(( hmm))

((Should we have drama? Say the girl at the bar flirts with max and Nereus gets a bit over protective and territorial and it all kind blurts out how they feel? Not sure about Evander and Catalina))

(( I don't feel like they are built up enough for that to have any impact ))

((Okay then….I’ve got nothing haha work is frying my brain))

(( That's fair. I'm blank too ))

((Hmmm))

Catalina crouched down, her eyes blurry with sorrow as she brushed back the damp raven hair of a woman behind her ear. Lifting her head up to scan the ocean to her right before calling over her shoulder; "Evan.... quickly."

The woman in front of her lay on her side, legs still attached together with skin and muscle though the scales had gone. Gills on the neck prominent, but closer - a deep gash in her waist.

Further up the beach, unhearable to Catalina's eyes, the low moans and groans of a man would be heard.

Evander followed her easily enough and he knelt beside her. “Siren?” He asked, looking up to scan the horizon for a threat before his vampire hearing picked up the sounds or groans of someone. “There’s someone else wounded.”

"She's half..." She mumbled, frowning as she got to her feet. "Someone else. Where? They need helping."

“I can hear him this way.” He told her as he followed the sounds soon finding the one that was making them. “Hey it’s alright.” Evander told him As he knelt beside him.

"He is like you." Catalina determined, staying at a catious distance as she watched the ashy blonde haired man's nostrils flared. Tilting her head slightly as her eyes flickered to his legs, the last of his scales disappearing as his breath bubbled as he breathed. "Or maybe not quite. I don't think he can breathe."

Evander moved to block her from view to protect her in case, and he helped the man to breathe as best as he could. “What did this?” He asked him.