My name is Joe, plain ol' Joe, yet despite my ordinary name my story is anything but.
I live along the beautiful coast of North Carolina, right on the shore. When the weather is fine I enjoy walking up and down the beach. Alone, now that the divorce is final.
Sometimes I find little treasures, driftwood, shells, sharksteeth, or sand glass. My wife used to say the sand glass had magic - but she's gone now and it's just polished glass.
I also have insomnia so I take my strolls on balmy nights as well. One night under the mystic blue light of the moon I heard a woman singing the most enchanting song just off shore.
I stood there for the longest time, looking out to sea enthralled by her voice, when she just stopped. I heard no motor start and wondered if maybe she were in a sailboat.
I've heard her voice before so I thought maybe she was a neighbor of mine. Her song seemed to come from the sea, but perhaps the wind was playing tricks on me.
Continuing my lonely walk further up the beach, I spied a human shaped lump, but it moved. I rushed forward afraid of what I might find. It was a girl.
She was struggling against the ropes of a net, getting more and more tangled up. Not feeling calm myself, I calmed her down so I could work on freeing her more methodically.
As I was tugging the net off the last of one delicate arm, she began to sing the familiar tuneless song. It must have been a foreign language since I didn't recognize any of the words.
I couldn't explain it, but I heard in the song a request to kiss her head.
Her hair was wet and coarse, but when my lips made contact, magically it became silky and soft. I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
I felt compelled to kiss her face next. A moment before, I'd thought it was injured, but now I was reminded more of a fairy princess.
Trying to help I asked, "Who are you? How'd you get here?"
She answered in what I guessed was a slavic accent, "I'm Suva, Queen of the Mer. I thank you for your ministrations and you shall be rewarded."
I don't know that I've ever met a stranger woman before, or seen a woman as beautiful. Not just as pretty as a model but literally breathtaking.
As I had to, I kissed her shoulder next. With no explanation, she told me to move on or it would transform too much. I should have been freaking out but her melodic voice soothed my doubts.
I kissed her all over, and as I did her sea-damp skin became milky and smooth. I Kissed her hip where there was some rough sand and a little seaweed stuck to her. And scales? I persuaded myself that a fish was stuck in the net with her.
But the enigmatic Suva warned me, "It's my tail. Change me so we can run. We need to get away fast."
Kissing the otherworldly tail it transformed into beautiful lithe legs.
There were patches of her body I'd failed to kiss, and she told me to be thorough. Hesitantly, I placed my lips on a skipped area, where a woman's pussy would be.
Instantly my mouth was buried in the luxurious, and inexplicably dry, mound of a woman's bush.
I was drawn to her like I've never been attracted to a woman before. My need was overpowering as I explored the crevices of her labia, the entrance to her vagina, and her clit.
Suva said, "You must get every area. And don't linger too long!"
By now I was making love to her in earnest, I continued to kiss all the previously untouched parts, making the transformation complete.
Her breasts were the classical martini glass shape seen on Roman statues.
Her belly was round and soft and jiggled beautifully under my touch.
Her legs were long and thin, but muscular. There was sand between her toes, which I spit out.
I was just about to lower my pants so we could consummate our affair when she pushed me off, "They will be coming soon. We can perseverate on this later." While I was glad to hear it - who talks like that?
Jumping up she grabbed my hand in hers, "Which way to your domicile?"
We ran down the beach, me leading the way to my house. Up the boardwalk, and through the gate where I stopped to enter my code.
Reading the sign which said: 'Palace Gardens' she asked if I was the master or groomsman.
Wondering what the fuck she was talking about I told her it was a condo.
When we got there she peered suspiciously out all the windows. Finally, satisfied we were alone, she lost her uneasy edge. She spoke with a regal authority, "I need sustenance."
Suva was beautiful, hot, sexy, magical, and probably crazy. I was pretty sure I was going to have sex with her. But I'd just gotten rid of one bossy, demanding woman I'd had sex with all the time, and I wasn't about to bring another into my life. My experience with my ex was so bad, I wouldn't even take a chance.
"I don't know who you are, but in my house you will treat me with respect, or you can leave now!"
Her demeanor changed instantly, "I'm sorry Sire. I misunderstood." If you can believe it she curtsied, "Shall we have food sent up?"
Now that she was treating me kindly, and we were more probably going to have sex, I reconsidered throwing her out. "I'll get some Chinese."
It was pretty mediocre take-out but her compliments were effusive. Over dinner she told an unbelievable tale:
"I am the rightful Queen of Mer, both by birthright, and by the will of the people. But my kingdom has been besieged by a coup.
The government has been co-opted by my rival who now seeks to quiet me by any means.
Furthermore, if we don't stop them, your government will fall next, your president is already a doddering puppet. Then the war against the humans will begin."
I didn't want to believe her. I didn't want to believe she had transformed in front of my eyes either. But since she had, anything could be true.
My only question was, "Are you a mermaid?"
She raised her eyebrows in answer, "This is what I've been telling you."
She further explained that while in the sea her people would always reflect their true nature. But as she said, "when exposed to the divergent genetic material of our distant ancestral cousins we transform on land - just as you would in the ocean."
When I asked for proof she told me that in the morning I would see her in her original form again. Then she pleaded with me to make love to her in the morning - to apply my saliva, to turn her back - well, I promised not to refuse?
We went upstairs and I couldn't keep my hands off her - or my lips. I just had to heed her continued warnings not to apply wet kisses anywhere too long.