Nagainni

Foamy waves crashed onto the sandy beach as I sat and watched the humans. They were all just playing together, children and adult, no outcasts to be seen. How I envied their lives, wishing that I could just play with them for a little while. But alas, I cannot, because there are some humans that hunt my kind and take them for their wives. Selkies, or what I am, must obey the person who steals their seal skin, so I can only come out of the water at night. I love dancing on the sand in the moonlight. I took my skin and hid it behind a tree near the beach so my new feet could feel the sand between my toes. "Water arise," I said, and three figur