The waves reached for her, sitting upon the rocks. They threw hands of sea water and foam on her delicate scales reaching for her relentlessly, only to find their attempt futile and part from her body. The rocks rising from the bottom of the briny bay, which she had climbed upon allowed her to leave the water for a time. She sat there gazing upon the beach and all that lay beyond it including the hill past the plains upon which stood a castle.

As she gazed upon a human celebration she pictured herself among them, a land woman instead of a daughter of the sea. With legs instead of the deep emerald like scales of her tail, beautiful jewelry made of metal and ribbons replacing the strands of pearls she was limited to in the sea. A gown of ribbon with elaborate designs instead of the hardened and cold shells she wore to cover herself. She began to sing as she wove her fingers through her long fine strand of blond hair, a song that drew the attention of all.

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Her song drew upon her envy of human women, which turned into her anger of not being able to possess the gifts they thought little of. Around her rose a horde of her sisters and the fellow mermaids to began to sing to the people upon the shore. As their song grew louder and stronger the men left the sides of their human wives and made haste towards the water. The mermaids flew through the water as arrows through air, each striking upon a man from the land above. They then brought the men further out into the water until they descended to the deeps the men clutched in their arms.

As each man drowned in unison the wives began to weep from the beach to the plains and to the castle upon the hill stood the women ,and even their queen wept from her castle windows. Each tear shed by the widows filled with grief began to join with the sea as they slowly sank below it, another Island drowned by the song of the mermaids.