Bacchus in Greek mythology

"Siren, what were you like?"

"Carefree and always happy."

"But it seems to me that you are the same now."

"Because you don't know me in the past, and after you came, I became a bit like myself in the past."

"Then what were you like in the past?"

Siren's smile froze at the corner of her mouth, her past self... She rubbed her hand on the rough tabletop, her voice drifted away, "It's been too long, I don't remember."

Achilles didn't care. He looked down at the gems that the Sirens had collected, not noticing the way the Sirens stared blankly at the ground.

In fact, I remember it, but it's too cruel to recall it, so I might as well not recall it.

As long as I can remember, I have been living in the gurgling water. When I look up, I can see the rippling lines. When I was a child, the siren didn't know that it was the beam of light formed by the sun shining on the river. She just thought it was so beautiful. At night This thing will disappear and reappear the next day during the day.

The muse is always very strict with the siren, and sets rules and regulations for her. She cannot go to land, cannot leave the water, and cannot sing in front of anything with spirituality. In order to make the siren obedient, she also imposes a She performed a magic spell to isolate her from the land.

At first the Siren didn't understand anything, but slowly, she began to rebel against the Muse.

Because everyone can go to the land, they will always tell the sirens new wonders on the land, how beautiful the colorful flowers are, and which country's king held a grand wedding.Her father's attendants are all mermaids like her. I heard that people on land call them mermaids.

The siren ran to his mother and asked, "Mom, am I a mermaid too?"

After hearing this, Muse squatted down immediately, led the siren to her side, and looked up at the little siren: "No, you are not, you are a goddess, a goddess like your mother."

The siren looked at her mother's slender white legs, and then at her own golden fish tail. Her immature voice was full of doubts, "But, I look the same as a mermaid, and I am different from you, mother."

Muse froze, then smiled: "That's because you inherited your father's characteristics, but in essence, you and I are the same, and you will understand when you grow up."

The sirens didn't understand, the mermaids told her that their fish tails would turn into legs when they reached land, which was a gift from her grandfather Furukawa to the mermaids.After hearing this, the Siren excitedly ran to her mother, "Mother, can you let me go to land once, I want to see my legs."

There were no loving eyes, no gentle words, replaced by thunderous rage, the appearance of Muse frightened her, she didn't understand why her mother was so angry, hiding behind her father, the siren barely escaped the catastrophe , and those mermaids who told her how good the land was, were ruthlessly turned into statues by her mother.

From that day on, the Sirens never dared to talk about going to land, nor would they be close to their mother.

The days passed by, the Siren grew up slowly, she became more and more beautiful, but Muse looked at her with more and more worried eyes, her mother put more and more shackles on her, and it was impossible to lock her up. means to get up.

No matter how long it has passed, the siren's yearning for land has never stopped.She even secretly begged her father, but there was nothing her father could do. Muse's magical powers were very powerful, and it seemed that she was determined not to let the sirens go out.

In fact, people play with her every day, but she always feels that it is not enough.

At some point, she competed with the fastest sailfish in the water, always leaving them far behind and out of sight.No one can compare to her until one day.

That woman also had a pair of slender legs, but they were far less beautiful than her mother's. Siren looked at her blankly, but this woman passed Siren directly and entered her father's room.

The siren asked the gatekeeper curiously: "Who is that woman?"

The gatekeeper bowed his head respectfully, and quickly replied: "Goddess Siren, she is the envoy of the Sea Emperor, the sea nymph Cassandra."

The Muse has always taught the sirens, and she has also told the sirens about most of the gods in the world, so the sirens know that the sea nymphs are low-level gods. Compared with gods, they are very numerous. So the Sirens don't remember Cassandra as a person.

After she came out, the siren followed Cassandra all the time.Siren made herself invisible, so Cassandra didn't feel anyone following her. After swimming for some time, Siren was tired. She stopped and didn't want to follow anymore, but when she looked back, she realized that she had left long ago. inhabited river.

It had happened before, and the Siren could find her way home, but this time she couldn't, because she couldn't see the bank or the bottom of the river, and it took her a long time to see the mud and the bottom. The gravel, surrounded by darkness, she realized that she had reached the sea, and the siren was afraid, so she swam up quickly, but deviated from the original direction.

She got lost.

Cassandra was long gone, and there were no talking creatures around, and she couldn't wait in one place, so she found a direction, swimming with the golden fish tail, to find someone who knew the way.

After an unknown amount of time, the siren became dejected. After being out for such a long time, if she didn't go back, her mother would be angry again. Just as she was worrying about her fate tonight, a person slowly floated to her side with a smile in the corner of her eyes. , "Beautiful mermaid, what's your name?"

The siren looked up and looked at the person with a wary face.With a tall body and a brown robe floating like water plants in the water, the handsome appearance made the siren slightly widen his eyes, and when he saw what he was holding in his hand, the siren asked uncertainly: "...Hel Moss?"

The siren's voice was immature and pleasant, and even had a bit of magic power, which made Hermes involuntarily want to approach her. Hermes raised his eyebrows: "Do you know me?"

The siren shook his head honestly: "I don't know, I heard from my mother that Hermes, the envoy of the gods, always holds a golden staff of coiled snakes."

Hermes smiled, "Little Mermaid, now that you know my name, can you tell me your name, and, whose child are you?"

My mother also said that when outsiders introduce themselves, they always say their name first, and then their identity, but her mother sternly warned her not to tell anyone her identity.

Although I don't understand why, at this point, the Siren still listens to the Muse very much, turning his eyes, the Siren raised his head: "My name is Siren, and I am a goddess. As for whose child I am, I don't want to explain."

Poor child, he can't even tell a lie, so he just told others his thoughts so bluntly, completely unaware that he aroused Hermes' curiosity.

Hermes thought it was funny, and looked the siren up and down. His tone was full of disbelief, "You are a goddess? Little Mermaid, have you seen a goddess?"

The siren heard his tone, and said unconvinced: "Of course I have seen it, my mother is, and so am I!"

Hermes shook his head, but still asked kindly: "Then goddess, where are your wings?"

The siren blinked, God Wing, what is God Wing?

Hermes raised his eyebrows, "Goddess... you don't even know the wings of God, do you?"

The siren choked, she really didn't know what God's wings were, the Muse and Scamander had never told her that.The siren was stunned, pointed at him and asked, "You are also a god, where are your god wings?"

Hermes smiled, the white light flashed, the water ripples slowly fluctuated, and two pairs of white wings spread out on his ankles. In an instant, the siren understood why the gods were called gods, because they were too sacred and beautiful .

Looking at the bewildered siren, Hermes retracted his wings again, and then asked the siren, "Little mermaid, what else do you want to say this time?"

Siren blushed and was speechless.She is indeed a goddess, but she also does not have divine wings.The Siren felt ashamed, but Hermes was rarely happy.

He originally sent a message to Poseidon, the emperor of the sea, and when he was about to leave, he caught a glimpse of something as gorgeous and bright as gold from the corner of his eye, but he didn't expect it to be a little mermaid.

And this was the most beautiful mermaid he had ever seen, all other mermaids paled in comparison to her.You know, mermaids are the most beautiful race besides gods.

Playful, she wanted to know who she was, whether she was the mermaid princess here, but she said she was a goddess.Hermes smiled and shook his head, so cute.

The more the siren looked at Hermes, the angrier she became. She was clearly a goddess, but Hermes had an expression of "you are joking", and the siren said loudly, "If I were on land, you would definitely be able to see When I come out, I am a goddess! Can’t you be considered a god at a young age? Didn’t you also grow up from a child to this age!”

Hermes laughed out loud after hearing this.The siren pointed at him, her face turned red with anger, but she couldn't do anything about him, so she could only turn around angrily, not going to talk to him again.

Seeing that the siren was about to leave, Hermes hurriedly grabbed her, and the siren frowned and turned her head, "Why, let me go, I'm going home."

Hermes pointed at the top, "As you said, let's go to land and try."

Siren turned her head angrily, her face darkened even more.It's true that which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, this Hermes is definitely here to find fault, specifically to worry about her!

Hermes was very strange. He didn't seem to have said anything wrong. Facing the siren, Hermes also became patient, "What's the matter? It's only afternoon, why are you rushing back to do it, you don't want to prove it?"

think.But……

The siren's voice became decadent, and she slowly turned her body back, looking at Hermes sadly: "But I can't get out."

Hermes froze for a moment, let go of the siren's hand, and laughed directly.It was so much fun to make that expression with a child's face.

Before the siren was blasted, Hermes stopped in time.

"Why can't you go out?"

The siren glanced at Hermes, then looked away, "Because my mother didn't want me to go out, she cast a spell on me."

As she spoke, as if she was afraid of Hermes and didn't believe it, she swung her fish tail and floated up quickly, but stopped at the surface of the sea, only a thin layer, but the siren couldn't push it away no matter what.

Hermes opened his eyes slightly. This is indeed a divine technique, but there is also a solution.Hermes looked up at the siren above, and shouted loudly: "Little Mermaid, come down, I will take you to unravel this magic spell."

After hearing this, the siren swam down quickly, almost colliding with Hermes with the tip of her nose, her face full of unconcealable joy, "Really? Where are you going?"

Hermes was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Let's go to the Sea Emperor."