As I open my eyes, the lights of thousands of orange gems radiate from the surface of the cavern. I turn my head as a variety of glowing jellyfish with blue electricity floating in the pool of cavern water. The cerulean blue accentuates the glassy water as the bottom of the lake harbors several small vents exuding heated water.

The large pool stretches with a semicircular patter creating a beach with several glowing jellyfish caught on its shores. The electricity no longer emanates from them as they dry on the beach, and black rocks of the cavern reflect sheens of orange and blue as the smooth stone gorges the eyes with splendor. 

My head rests on something soft however. I shake my skull until the blue green face of the siren who kissed me bursts into view. She hymns a soothing lullaby with such a subtle tune, I failed to notice her presence. I jerk from on her rolling onto my side. My feet explode with pain, but I ignore my body's sudden rejection over my actions.

The Teran army tells stories about the entrapping powers of sirens, though they never spoke of their presence in caves. The sirens in oceans would drag sailors into the depths where they weep after their victims suffocate. I anticipated the same fate whenever I found her grasping me.

Yet I live. As I peer backwards, her smooth, silky skin shifts as she gazes at me with the glance of a confused child. Her tail folds back and forth leading up towards her slender hips forming the flowing cadence of a beautiful woman. Her curious expression exacerbates her sexiness, but I stifle my lust as I peer downwards at my feet.

While still butchered, they hide fewer internal injuries than I anticipated. As I calm myself, I notice a stark contrast with my previous specs. Whenever I passed biomancing at the Gelta Base, I achieved a rather powerful combination of rapid biological manipulation as well as shifting specializations.

Most successful biomancers used their muscular physiques as bases for their mutations. With my gangly frame, I managed by focusing my efforts towards creating specific limbs for scenarios while inputting all of my energy into a particular point rather than dispersing it throughout my body like everyone else.

This gave me short bursts of strength compared with others, but I compensated using my superior timing. That's how I escaped The Fog from earlier, yet as I check my internal hud, my specs increased dramatically. The enormous leap offers me many resources for shifting my body's resources.

As I heal my injuries grinning over my sudden empowerment, the siren slithers over towards me. I raise a hand shouting as my legs reform skin, "Stop. What do you want?"

She points at herself singing another hymn except with a discordant tune rather than a harmonious one. She leans on both her hands waiting for my reply, so I say, "Ugh. What language do you speak?"

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She chimes a few high notes before silence envelops us once more. As I raise an eyebrow, I say with surprise in my voice, "So you can understand me?"

She nods as her tail slaps the water flowing waves over the once serene pool. The liquid bounces off the edges of the caverns walls as I say, "What were you doing to me earlier?"

She replies with a melodic tone enrapturing my ears with her splendor. Before I lose myself in the notes, I say snapping from my trance, "I'll rephrase the question. Are you trying to hurt me?"

She shakes her head jostling her emerald hair as she sprinkles water around her. Her gestures give her an astonishing amount of humanity, so I say with the tone of a negotiator. "Then would you mind approaching me slowly then stopping within arms reach?"

She smiles revealing opalescent teeth that shine with a snow white before she slides into the water with a smooth grace. She paddles through the water gliding through the lquid with the ease of a bird flying through the air. She lifts herself from the water with a slow, composed motion before she slithers over the near polished stone.

Her pace slows until she lays beside me within arms reach. She leans on an arm as her slight smile paints her face with a tempting glow. I reach out an arm poking her face shows several sharp azure runes that ebb a purple miasma while her eyes glow a sky blue like beacons of light.

My finger sinks into her skin with a peculiar lack of resistance. I expected a rather muscled frame underneath, yet she giggles at my touch with a echoing radiance. I grin as I say, "You're not very strong are you?"

Her grin grows as she leans closer singing an enthralling tone that pulls me towards her before she pushes me away. 

I boom a laugh before I say, "But you have your own talents, I hear you. No need to be so feisty."

My mood sobers as I continue, "That does leave a question. Why did you save me?"

She lays against the warm stone folding her arms singing with the tone of child while closing her eyes. I say, "Were you curious then?"

She nods her head as she grabs my arm pulling me towards her. I squint my eyes ready for combat as my body recovered while we spoke earlier, but she lays my head against her folded legs/tail. She sings the resonating harmony of earlier as I find my eyelids grow heavy.

Normally I would panic, but she saved me earlier. I can't just fear her every move as the cave ensnares us both. As my eyelids grow heavy, her azure runes grow brighter as she smiles and her eyes turn white.