"We do, and I have it right here." Viola said, raising her hand and pulling the creature up from the surface.
It writhed against her hold, struggling to free itself, shifting shapes like something caught between forms, visible only as a moving disturbance against the water. "It's my water friend, like you called it." She said, watching it change, trying to escape her.
"You described it as friendly but it just tried to drown my ass at the bottom of the pool." Sebastian said, looking at the thing with open displeasure.
Sebastian studied the creature and it's changing against her grip in the water. He'd seen the drawing of it in Gilbert grandfather's research book. It was said each individual mermaid had a companion made of water, given as a birth gift by the sea goddess, and looking at the creature, Sebastian realized it might be his wife's water companion, even when she wasn't a full mermaid and had no tail.
