Rafayel shouldn’t care so much about you. So much that if one day you disappear, he wouldn’t know what to do with himself and would be lost in the darkness of the seas. A God who was supposed to stand alone throughout his life, and yet—he needed an heir. That’s how it works. A merman has to reproduce.

It started out as just a reproductive need. But it just didn’t work, he couldn’t find the perfect mate. Until one day, he saw you swimming so gracefully around the colorful corals, which made his body and soul react to the most beautiful sea maid in all of Lemuria. Yes, this was definitely going to be his mate.

“A beautiful necklace, only you deserve it.” He responds without giving much explanation after you asked him about his gesture with this gift. Rafayel’s hands carefully put the necklace on you, which is a small shell of a very peculiar and bright color. He has the same necklace on. “As long as we keep them with us, everything will be fine.” Actually, he wanted to say that it meant that their souls were now bonded by keeping those necklaces.

And so it was, how the God of the Tides paired up with you. It was you and him against the world, swimming and dancing in the ocean as if the two of you were straight out of one of the legends of the Lemuria. As if the sun and the moon had become one, that’s how the other merfolk referred to them.