His Aquatic Angel

6 - You're ancient, Nephrin!

The next night, he went out to sea and awaited for her arrival.

He had so much to ask her about, but after a prolonged wait, he called it a night. Dawn was soon approaching and it was clear that she had no intention to coming.

The second day in search for her, he was now more desperate than ever to talk to her. But to his misfortune, she didn't show. But he knew that he could keep on waiting for her till the end of earth if he had to.

And even if he tried to give up, sleep wouldn't visit him and he'd be troubled by the memory of that one encounter.

Now, on the third day. As he called out for her, she finally appeared.

"You just won't quit, will you?" She greeted him with the sentence.

As per usual, he wasn't used to seeing her. She was definetly not an easy sight to look at.

She was terrifying and had a lot of features that many fear. But Aaron saw underneath all pale dark blue skin, and the sharp teeth and the rigdes on her head and shoulders, he saw a creature that fascinated him more than anything else in the world.

If she was considered as a marine animal, she would be a main attraction. She just had so much to show to the world.

"I'm sorry, I tried to quit but, it isn't in my blood to." He said bringing out a college pad. "Now I have a few questions for you."

"Questions? Who did you think you are, a doipheu?"

"What's a doipheu?"

She sighed heavily. "I have a feeling that you only brought me out here interrogate me."

"I'm not, I just want to learn more about you. It's just so odd, I've just got to know everything."

"Okay." She conceded. "You can try give me your easy questions first."

"Thank you. How old are you?"

"Two hundred and seventy."

"What? Have you been around during the cold war?" He asked in awe.

"Cold war?"

"Nevermind that, you must be ancient, how have you managed to keep your secret for so long?"

"I don't know, no human ever makes it out alive of the place we live in once they get in. So I guess that's why. How old are you?"

"Twenty four." He said and it caused her to immediately laugh.

"You can't be twenty four, the moon has obviously circled around you more than 24 times."

"So you count your age by the moon?"

"Yes. After every moon cycle of 27 days."

"Oh, that makes sense." Then he began writing down a calculation on his book. "Then that would make you about twenty or twenty one years."

Nephrin laughed at her new age, to her, Aaron had just given her the age of a child that was barely two in human years. And as she laughed, he wrote down the newly acquired information about her.

"Wait, you're scribbling down what I say?" Nephrin asked.

"Um, yes?"

"No, you can't pass knowledge about us to anyone. Not when you heard it firsthand from me.

"So you meant it when you said I'll die if I passed down any knowledge that you give me about your kind?

"Yes."

"Okay, I won't pass any knowledge about you to anyone." He threw out his book into the water. She smiled at his noble act. She could see that he meant it when he said that.

"But, can you help bring back the book I just threw. It'll clutter the ocean." He asked shyly once he figured out that he did something that stupid.

She swam out and handed him the dampening book once it was retrieved.

"I'll just put this aside." He laid the book by his side. "Now, will you tell me where you live?"

Nephrin didn't answer his question and had just looked at him with a smile on her face.

"You're so brave you're almost stupid you know that?" She said.

"What do you mean?"

"You do not know what I'm capable of and still, you sit here comfortably and ask me questions."

"That's just it Nephrin, I don't know what you're capable of. I need to know."

"You're wrong, you don't need to know, you just want to know."

"Even so, what's wrong with me trying to learn something new about... well, something new."

"I don't know Aarod –"

"Aaron." He corrected her.

"Aaron." She repeated after him. "You men are always trying to find a way to fulfill your selfish desires. You'll probably expose information about me to the world to gain –" she was interuptted by Aaron as she was about to utter a word of her fears.

"I do not want any of those. I'm not really into the material things of life, I just want live it. Especially now more than ever since you saved me."

Nephrin's tail began to sway happily in the water, and she refrained from doing that when she caught herself.

"And it would be very dishonorable of me to betray the crea – girl that saved my life." He said and scrunched his face. "You are a girl, right?"

She laughed at him. "Again... yes."

And for the first time, Aaron laughed along with her. Nephrin noticed too and her tail began swaying again.

And they spent the entire night telling each other stories about their two worlds that were two polar opposites.