#⟢ ₊ .◝ * “ verse: main ” … to unpathed waters and undreamed shores.
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @recovened, taylor! )
“ magic? ” she asks, eyes wide and glittering, dark amber and filled with a wonder that she holds up to all the world. “ land magic? oh, i’ve never … “ the words escape her, and the thought as well, she catches hold of a glimmering ball on the book case, but a sour feeling stirs in the dark, forgotten pit as she finds it reminds her of a story she has tried her best to let go of. ariel tries her best to let it roll off of her, eagerly awaiting the other woman, rife with power that ariel can feel through her daydreams, to tell her all about. “ what is it like? ”
3 notes
·
View notes
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @khenzi )
with wonder filled eyes, ariel leans over the edge of the ship, and every part of her reaches for the water below. she stands on the tips of her toes, only moments from toppling forward and diving into the water. a flash of deep red, green, a warmth that beckons her, like a comforting embrace. “ hello! ” she cries out, her smile wide and her arms just as, waving in big sweeps. “ we’re friendly! i’m ariel! i’m from atlantica! ”
1 note
·
View note
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @publicabsent )
her curiosity is insatiable, leading her places she can’t remember having a direction to go. the tight, heeled boots her new friends at the castle had put on her have been discarded some way along the way. there’s a draw to the woods, one that hadn’t been there before, something that feels inhuman, safe, a gentle hum. ariel pushes on the door, the loud creaking startling the other girl in the room, and something in her hips stirs. “ are you the psychic? ” she asks, her eyes wide as saucers.
1 note
·
View note
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @princsea )
she runs to the water, and it feels like home. giggling all the while, she trips over her own feel, but with her hand in eric’s, she knew she wouldn’t fall. they reach the shore, only stopping for a moment for eric to take off his shoes. she had barely been able to hold herself back in that time, bouncing on her toes, feeling the scales poking through already from the anticipation. “ come on, come on! just leave your shoes on, anyway! you have so many! ”
1 note
·
View note
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @celinegarnier )
“ you’re a princess too? ” she’d met a queen, a prince, but never a land princess. she glows with the light of all of the stars, and ariel seizes the other girl’s hands in her own. she’s silver, she rings like a bell, pretty chimes that float through the air and tickle the soft crevices of her ribs. they’re at a ball, near the end of the night, ariel’s shoes have been gone, for a long, long time, and there’s scarcely anyone left in the room besides the two of them. it feels like a story. “ where? i- i mean … where are you from? i’m from the sea! ”
1 note
·
View note
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @softbrawn )
he feels like sunlight, warming the water from far away. except now, it’s not so untouchable, so forbidden. not that it mattered, not that it ever did. she knows her father, knows his heart, but she still doesn’t understand why he ever wanted to keep this beautiful, wonderful world from her. with these lovely people, with gil, who tells her stories and lets her play with his hair and put land flowers in it. “ and what then? ” she questions, eagerly, awaiting the rest of the story from where gil paused, so much so that she lets her hands slip from his hair, peeking over his shoulder so she could look at him. “ where did you go? ”
0 notes
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @witch3rie, belle!)
she’s completely lost, wandering around the warm, elegant castle, threaded with age. her shoes have been gone for a long time, most of the time she’d been here, actually. she’s never been inside one that was so closed off to the outside world. even eric’s castle had open windows, balconies and terraces that held rooms. it makes it hard to feel her way around without the breeze of the sea to guide her, but she doesn’t mind. it feels like a game, hide and seek! except the seeking is all of the lovely things she finds. golden things she had used to hold dinglehoppers back at home now holding the biting, jumping, dancing fire. the next thing she finds, just as enchanted, is a room lined with books. she lights up with recognition, a library! like eric’s, but more books and less things from her home and much, much bigger. and not so devoid of anyone else as his is. nestled in soft cushions, next to … something she wasn’t sure. the idea of the other woman slips from her mind as she nears the object, gazing at it curiously. wide eyed, she approaches it from its own level. “ what is it? ” she asks after several beats of silence, examining the curve of the object, the tiny designs splayed across the front, facing the woman. “ i’ve never seen one before! ”
1 note
·
View note
lil testing starter call, accepting. ⟢ ( @winterbeheaded )
these waters are cold, far past chilly and unlike the waters of atlantica, or any of her sister’s seas. but the sea can never be too different, not in its entirety. a big, living body, and yet, there is so much to find, to explore. ariel ducks into a bed of coral, pearly white, her fingers brushing up against them, humming and letting the melody the coral sings back sweep her into its arms. she doesn’t know how long she stays like that, before she spots large brown eyes, human in shape compared to one of the fish. they reminds her of one of the animals eric has shown her, far, far away from any shore she’s known. a deer. “ hello there, ” she says, softly, to match the gentle trembling of the other mermaid. “ are you from these waters? or just visiting? like me? ”
0 notes