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Once upon a time there was a mermaid who loved a man.
Love comes in like the tide for her kind: implacable, undeniable, overwhelming. Syrena is helpless in its wake, soulbound by its power.
Phillip gives himself willingly into her hands; this is a gift few of her kind ever know. She pulls him down, down, to her home, showing him wonders mortal men only dream of.
She devours every bit of him, down to the bone, and lays his remains upon a sea-floor altar. She will visit here often, to remember her love.
This is her happily ever after.