MHOS Part 26: Baby, we're Sirens in Lust (Day 7)

Morning comes and I ache all over.. maybe I did go a little too hard last night. I stretch in every direction and walk to the kitchen. I really didn't eat a lot last night so the hunger has compounded and I feel like I could eat a buffet out of business. I grab a snack and head out the door. I am going back to the bistro in the lake to eat and heal in the water today.

I pull the car into Husks driveway and slip into the lake without checking on him.. He works at a bar, it's early, he's sleeping and I need to refuel the tank. I swim passed the hostel and make my way to the bistro and say "I need to eat and I need to heal" the woman leaves and comes back with a sushi tray and says "Mud baths behind the caves, go" I drop some coins into her hand and swim off to the mud baths to see what those are about.

Every mud hole has hangers for clothes and plenty of ledge space for food and entertainment. There are various amphibious folks floating around, all in various state of undress, no one alarmed at any of it.. Huh.. I guess amphibious people don't live with shame.. I like it. I strip my clothes down nothing and hang my things at an open mud hole and slide myself in the mud up to my armpits, leaving my hands free to eat at the sushi tray I have.

The mud feels like glowing.. it doesn't actually glow, my skin isn't glowing in it.. the mud.. just.. feels like glowing.. and I am here for it.. I glow and I eat and I enjoy my alone time, watching the people swim around and it occurs to me.. how am I going to clean the mud off? there is not a towel in sight.. and like she read my mind another Siren swam out of the mud hole and spun creating a whirlpool around her and the mud settled down at her feet..

I'm thoughtlessly admiring the swirl of the mud going back down I am not thinking of the woman who can see me watching her.. and she does.. see me.. and stays there looking at me.. waiting for me to notice.. my eyes make my way to her face and I snap out of my dreamy observation back into reality and she smirks at the double take when we make eye contact.

She says "Well if you are going to stare the least you could do is strike up a conversation." and she swims to my mud hole and sits on the ledge beside me waiting for me to say something. "I've never done this before" I say. And she says "Flirt with women?" and I say "Use a mud hole.. I was watching how you got the mud off when you were done sitting in it. So I could do the same.." She grabs my hands and pulls me out and says "Let me help you" She hovers above me wraps my fingers around a single finger tip of hers and says "Spin in place"

I do as she says and she smiles replying "See? Nothing to it right?" as I nod she sees the marks on my ribs and the dark bruise on my thigh and says "I think you need a little more time in the mud" I chuckle and say "They are fresh. From last night. I don't expect them to heal in a day" as she slides her hand up my thigh over the dark, black, belt shaped bruise, I wince a little and she looks up at me and says.. "No, more like 3 or 4 in the mud baths, 1-2 weeks if you live underwater, close to a month if you surface regularly & do nothing." She takes my hand and slides is up her torso and as I slide my hand up her body I can feel long, thin lines on her skin.. Old war wounds and as I go to look down at them she takes me by the chin and kisses me right there above the mud baths.

I start to melt into her mouth until I realize, we literally just met. I grab her shoulder and pull her off me saying "I don't even know your name!" and she replies "You don't need it I won't be here tomorrow" and she pulls me in and I kiss her again, feeling passion overtake my sensibilities, until I say "I can't do this" as I pull her off me a second time. She smiles and says "So you're REALLY new still huh? Still holding onto those human morals from your time back on earth?" She swims up above the mud baths and begins singing the same song I did when I went hunting with Alastor and as she swayed with the flow of the song Sirens came out from every corner all joining in the song and embracing each other passionately, multiple Sirens approach her and myself and start touching each other as they pull us together.. She kisses me again and says "Baby we're Sirens in Lust"

As the kiss turns heated she says between breaths "I have a hostel if you want to be alone" I grab my clothes off the mud bath hooks and say "I have a cave" She pulls her head back in surprise. "Really? You've made a home already?" and I say "3-ish actually.. 1 above water, one below and I took over a place in Obsession and gave it to a soul I own" She smiles and says "Oh! You're a collector! You absolutely must get one a home in Greed they are top of the line. And Gluttony? You will never need anything again.. And check out the lake in Cannibaltown! Cleanest waters this side of the Pentagram. Now which is your cave?"

I look around not realizing she had pulled me away from the orgy of Sirens and into the quiet of the row of caves. I say "We left?" and she answers "I respect the human morals while you still have them" as she touches my hair, flowing in the current. "They are almost.. sweet" she says making eye contact with me. I grab her by the hair, pull her in close, kiss her hard and swim backwards into my cave with her in my arms.

Getting comfortable with letting go of who I was on earth will take some getting used to.. but today.. there will be no names and no expectations.. and I think that will be a good first step.