[center][h1]Arios[/h1][/center]
[@Silen Syanka]
Arios looked wide-eyed towards the human who was drowning. As if he saw a ghost. In a flash, he remembered a dream he had forgotten for nearly 15 years.

[indent][i]For a moment, everything was sunny and bright. With a calm ocean before him. On the waters sailed two dozen ships. Big and small, all seeming to go somewhere. But it was but for a moment. Soon the clouds began to converge. Fusing and melting and growing grayer. The winds began to blow harder, and the sea churned and whipped at the hulls. A few drops began to fall at first. While the winds were pushing the clouds into a disk. Twisting from a center that seemed to suck the sky itself in it. Thunder cracked through the air but the flash was behind clouds. Though it seemed to have broken the sky as a torrent of water poured down on the ships. The ships were going up and down but could not get forward. The waves crashed upon the wooden bodies as if they wanted to crack them. The water splashed over the bows of even the biggest ships, crashing water on the already soaked decks. And the wind kept howling and screeching, as the first lightning bolts pierced the heavens and crashed down around the fleet. As pillars of light and the God's Wrath. But in the middle of the fleet, the worst every sailor feared was happening. The waves began to circle around a point. The water in the middle was being sucked in, as if something at the bottom of the ocean was consuming it. The ships were one by one caught in the swirling current. And then it happened. Tentacles. Giant pillars of ugly flesh rising from the depth of the maelstrom. Whipping at the masts and ships. Cracking the ships and splintering decks. Grabbing men and throwing them in the twisting current.

And the final words he remembered from the dream: "I'm sorry...I love you."[/i][/indent]

Arios shook him away from his Deja-Vu. And as fast as he could he swam towards the sinking person. He didn't know who it was, but something in his head. Something in his guts told him this person was important. A Humacampus of the patrol arrived too, and with a few movements of her finger she enlarged a bubble and placed it around Liandrich's unconscious head. But there was another gut feeling. Though this person was the key to something. No normal mermaid or merman was allowed to know of his existence. He had to be hidden. Kept away. A memory flashed by, of the princess. He knew she had a hiding spot. One good enough that even he never found it. It would be perfect. But where was she? "Where are you, your Highness? Please come to me! This matter...it is too big! I require your help!" it were words that Arios never said once in his life. 'I require your help'. Arios never needed help. But now he cried out for it, hoping the princess would heed his call.