Fairy Tale Event START

[dreamsthief]

[The selected few will hear a Rhode's laughter echoing down the hall sometime during the day. She sounds delighted in an evil sort of way, a tone that continues when she speaks:]

Tradition gathered from afar,
Tradition changing those that are,
Normal, yes, to stories old.
Bind them long until the story's told.

Rhode laughs again and those that

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SIRENS (aka bitchy mermaid stealing your man)

[onlypiousfor]

[There is a cove here in the DR. It is brightly lit and overall very pleasant-looking, though the water does seems much too deep for such a place. This cove belongs to Lenalee. Which is to say that she woke to a tail, hair literally to the sea and back, and the overwhelmingly steadfast belief that she owns the sea and any man to come near it. So that's fun.

Lenalee herself can be found lounging on an unbelievably convenient boulder out in the water, a ways from shore and for once headache-free. Modesty also seems to be something she's doing without, because there isn't a stitch of clothing on her- and going by the little smile on her face, she's quite all right with the fact. At length, she rolls over to press her stomach to the rock face, then begin to hum.

Oh, poor, unfortunate souls. ♫ Come out, come out.]

[promisedlotus]

[He was simply on his way through the halls to go and visit Alma, but, well, he heard something as he walked that caught his attention. The humming. Kanda stopped and listened. Curious, he turned and followed the sound to try and find the source.

As he walked and the closer he got, the more set he was on trying to find the source and the more he forgot about his date with his girlfriend.

-wait. He had a girlfriend?

Screw that.]

[onlypiousfor]

[Truth be told, she's merely humming for the fun of it, but be it by residual Apocryphos instinct or something more to do with the Tradition binding them all to these tales, she can feel Kanda's approach and that changes things. Makes them fun. Her humming becomes that much more deliberate and she slips down on the rock to hide herself almost entirely from view. Not for any preservation of decency, of course, but to make him look harder. Peering from around the rock whenever it is that he gets close enough for her to see, still humming, still smiling.]

[He really is handsome. ♥]

[promisedlotus]

[-oh there's no source. Kanda frowns slightly and moves in closer toward the water. As he listens, he notices that the close he gets to the water, the louder it gets still.

It must be coming from around that rock, then.]

...Hello?

[onlypiousfor]

[Oh, no, there is a source. You just have to look harder. Closer. Slipping a little further down the rock so her tail ripples the water with a quiet lapping sound and laughing once, soft and as much a part of her humming as anything else.] Hello! ♪

[promisedlotus]

[-Ah.] Lenalee?

[Moving a little closer.]

[onlypiousfor]

Yes! [There's another quiet splash as she languidly rolls over a second time and sinks into the water. It only takes a few powerful strokes to bring her to another rock that's considerably closer to shore; Lenalee surfaces with another ringing hum, then drapes across it as mermaids are apparently wont to do in myths like these. Hopefully he won't mind the (deliberate) glimpse of bare breasts he receives while she does. Without a second thought to whether or not he does, she folds her arms, rests her chin atop crossed wrists, and drinks in his appearance, eyes roving appreciatively over Kanda's face, shoulders, chest... and then even lower still. Her lips curl again.]

What are you doing so far from home? ♫

[promisedlotus]

[sdfhjgjhg LENA BOOBS, AVERTING GAZE. And blushing a little.]

I just heard humming and was curious, is all.

[onlypiousfor]

[Oh, Kanda, don't be so prudish. She's a siren; they're there to be looked at. All part of the luring-men-out-to-sea shebang. Lenalee still falters a little when he glances away, looking a little hurt, but she does well to hitch a smile back on and continue the ruse of unflappably cheerful mermaid with another flick of her tail. People here don't like her. She has to learn to... live with that.]

Mm, that was me. I can keep going, if you'd like. Do you want me to?

[promisedlotus]

[Hush he's never seen a nude woman before!]

If you'd like. It sounds really nice.

[onlypiousfor]

[She looks almost surprised to hear it, bringing one hand up to touch her throat and blenching.]

...Thank you.

[She knows her voice is alluring to other men- not a thought occurring out of any arrogance; it's just how a siren's voice is supposed to be- but still, hearing it from him... it makes her feel...

Lenalee blinks hard a few times and resumes humming. It's closer to singing than before, thin little words from a different language probably mixed in somewhere.]

[promisedlotus]

Of course.

[He'll listen, naturally, and maybe even get a little closer still.]

[onlypiousfor]

[Closer is good. She props herself up once she notices this development, fingers slipping in the water streaming over the rock. Could she get closer, too...? If he reaches the water's edge, she'll meet him there.]

[promisedlotus]

[He'll get there eventually!]

[onlypiousfor]

[Oh, but she's impatient! Which is why she only waits a few minutes more before she takes to the water again. The humming falls into silence while she slips through the seaweed and driftwood, a glimmer beneath the water. Then she surfaces a foot or two from shore, where the water is still deep enough to keep her tail submerged, but shallow enough that she can prop herself up on her elbows. This time at least, her hair provides some modesty. Resting her chin on clasped hands.]

Aren't you warm in all of that? ♫

[promisedlotus]

Ah, not really, no.