"She must really love you to have followed you through to this world of ours,"Greene said, training her eyes on Oliver,serene, exuding an alluring ambiance.
Her delicate shoulders sloped,as she leaned onto the side of the boat, supported by her elbow. Full lipped, and with a greenish bulging eyes protected by thick lashes that flapped the skipping beat of Oliver's heart, each gaze that randomly locked with Oliver's, sent shivers down their bodies, leaving a flushed cheeks.
Her overweight greenish body, which spanned from her hips down while she was half human, had given way to sleek legs, sharp and long like the gazelle's. Slender, with silky greenish strands that went some way below her hips which were then covered by a long brown skirt, made from animal skin, and with a slit running from the ankles to her smooth chubby thighs, she appeared a little smaller than before. With the three of them sailing through the dark rivers, she was like the maiden in distress, and the muscular, powerful looking young men, were of the appearance of a typical night-in-shiny-armour.
"She didn't do it for me,"Oliver replied after a long while,"she was simply protecting someone dear to her,"he added, looking at the brooding man beside him, who was yet to recover from the shock of what he had seen at the river. Horrified and almost lifeless, he didn't bat an eye for a long time.
"She would do anything for him,"she said smiling," but I'm not sure how you both are so connected that he could make the leap.
"I don't know either. I don't remember that part of my life. Ever since I arrived, there seems to be some barrier between my memories. Some part... which I feel must be too irrelevant seems to have been deleted and gone. While I feel some familiarity between us, I don't remember how I knew them before now."
"Maybe it has to do with the torn in the veil...."
"There's more to this than a simple torn in a veil.
Anyway, just want her to arrive as fast as she could and get this youth off my hands. I'm no babysitter."
Blushing, she giggled as the mere thought of them alone popped up in her mind. Rolling a strand, she looked away from him to the waters, calm and encompassing, and at that point, still as tranquility itself, only that the lightening never stopped, nor did the thunder.
"You know you shouldn't have let her go. She may not be the same when she returns, even the mere fact of her lover sailing with us comes with a price she must pay."
"What should I have done then?
Let her sulk in the open space for the whole time I am out searching for my brother... and of course with this her stubborn brother who feels I should be kept away from Neo at all cost or pursue him while with them. I don't understand the options available, Greene.
And for all I know, I feel safest with her. I don't know how we winded up here with almost all of my cultivated powers buried and locked away from my grasp like that sheet of my memory.
Besides my inner force and purpose, I am defenseless against whatever may come at me. So, I need her and if she thinks there's a way she can get back to us, I know nothing will stop her from taking it, and hope nothing will."
"I'm also here. I can help."
He smiled at her, with the sparkle of fire in his eyes, knitting several crocheted colourful butterflies in her belly.
"You can while we are here, Greene, but you and I know you may not be able to do much if we are drawn away from here as I fear."
"You brother is here and you will find him here."
"I hope so."
As the thought of Neo clouded Oliver's mind, the maiden who kept twisting her hair got engrossed with the fate of the being she has only heard in stories.
"She will never step into our world, so be rest assured,"Medusa had comforted when she shrieked in fear, following a long tale of the first serpent that walked the world.
As the fright from that night returned to her unconsciously, her legs which were stretched out towards Oliver whose hands never left the oars, rowing towards the end that was yet in sight, and torn in his contemplation, trembled a little, and got entwined between Oliver's.
He gulped down his saliva and tried pulling his crossed legs apart to rid himself of hers, but it jerked and the other joined before she realized and withdrew from him, and both went speechless.
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"You don't understand, mother.
She wanted to go and there was nothing we could do about it."
The pillars were roughly pushed away. Coming off and shattering into rubbles on the floor, as the sea serpent flung herself from one edge to the other in her rage.
"You should have told me!
I forbade any of you to take that full likeness and the only ones let in here are preys of the curse, how could you disobey me?"
"Well, I tried but I didn't stand a chance against that devil," Rattle muttered, glaring at his brothers," and none of them came to my aid."
"With her triumph, Greene was easily left off the hook... and it was her permission she sought."
"My black diamond, is this true?"she asked, a bit composed with her back to them, fuming within.
"I asked you a question, or have you lost your ears,"she shot at him and turned at once but her tail, huge, and gigantic, knocked the halfling off instead of the pillars that were then littered everywhere in heaps with the roof threatening to collapse upon them.
Her brazen balls shot it's fiery fire against them, one after the other with Diamondback out of the way.
"Mother, it's no fault of ours."
Her laughter echoed through the large hall, with a look of ridicle smeared on her face.
"Tell me then, was it my fault?"she yelled, scolding him.
"A stranger entered your home and not only did you leave it alive, your sister even took permission from it to disobey me, now, isn't that ridiculous?"
"It was a she, mother," Brown said, stranding alongside his brothers with their tails spanning the large hall, down to the entrance.
"It was about time you all told her," someone said, and the family turned at once to the direction to meet Nina, with her long red silky strands almost meeting the floor.
"Hello, Medusa."