His name is Yoon Jeonghan. A siren prince. Since male sirens are rarer than the female one, his parents and everyone in the kingdom tend to be more protective of him. He’s not allowed to wander off into the surface, just stayed in the deep ocean.

But watching his fellow siren talk about the surface, Jeonghan feels envious. He wanted to see and experience what they all talk about. He wants to sing his siren song and lured humans to have his fun with them. He wants to see those two legs creature all of them talk about.

Jeonghan is a curious one, and no one can blame him. The people around him shield him too much from the world outside the ocean. Saying it’s too dangerous for him, that human is a terrible creatures who won’t hesitate to capture him and kill him. And all those bad things that feed into him.

It scared him, for the longest time. And those feelings of scare and wary was enough to calm the raging curiosity of the world beyond the ocean kingdom inside him. It had been enough, but not anymore.

So, one night when all of the siren in his kingdom fell asleep, Jeonghan slips past the guards carefully. He makes his way out of the kingdom, and when he was sure no one saw him, he bolted out, swimming away from the castle. He swim and swim, passing the farthest he ever gone to.

It’s dark on the surface, only the light of the moon shine down on the water. With the closer he get to the surface, he can feel how the water feels colder. It makes him shiver but the cold feels refreshing to him. It’s the first time he tastes a bit of freedom, and he can say he likes it.

He swims, further and further away from his castle. Then, awhile later he can see the water getting more shallow as he swims, which mean one thing, he’s closer to the surface. With that, he swims faster, laughing in glee, excited about seeing the surface. Just seeing, for a short while, then come back into the water before the sun break, that was what he promised to himself. Just seeing.

Then, when he’s close enough to the beach, he swims up, head pushed past the water surface. Breathing? Well inhaling the air of the surface anyway, his body still inside the water. He look up, gazing up at the moon shines brightly on the sky above. His eyes sparkle, it’s beautiful. Much more beautiful now that he can see it much clearer and not through rippling water.