Legends of Belariath

Sarai

Part 12: Miliani

Today I met with a person eating merfishie

sarai{Ehl} I picked up my pen, then looked to Miliani "so what shall I write about?"

Miliani smiled softly, leaning a bit back in her chair, "Well, whatever you want really. Perhaps my name. Many call me Mili, but formally I'm Miliani."

sarai{Ehl} "well hello Miss, erm...what are you if I may ask?"

Miliani "Merfolk actually, though you probably couldn't tell in my pressence state."

sarai{Ehl} I nodded, writing it down, I looked to Miliani carefully "you’ve got no fishy tail, where’s your fishy tail?"

Miliani giggled softly, "I left it in the water. No, actually merfolk have two forms. Human appears on land but once in the water, we gain our tails back."

sarai{Ehl} I nodded slowly, then tilted my head, "sooo..is it true merfishies eat people?”

((At this point, as always in the inn, I was interrupted by a man that was later identified as Aldor))

Aldor was now behind myself and Miliani and peeked along. "That’s a big book there."

Miliani shook her head, "Not at all. I myself don’t care for meat, usually just vegetables and fruits." Her eyes were drawn to the stranger, a hand shifted quietly toward where her dagger lay something about the man but she waited resting her hand back on her lap.

sarai{Ehl} I blinked and turned to look at Aldor "Yes Sir it is" then I turned back to Miliani "there’s fruit underwater?"

Miliani looked back to me, "There are vegetables and some do enjoy eating fish or things that we trade, however being on land I enjoy many things that I can not being in the water."

sarai{Ehl} “oh..such as?”

Miliani gave herself time to think, a soft hmm came from her lips, "Well, meeting all sorts of different races that I have never seen and only read about. I have tried deer once, didn't like it, but the food is different here. There are similarities and differences between the water realm and this one, some I like, some I do not."

sarai{Ehl} “oh...so you do eat people?”

Miliani shook her head, "No, I do not. I said meet, not 'meat" she couldnt help but smile.

sarai{Ehl} “your smiling.....so either your lying, cause a lot of people do that to me, or your making fun, cause lots of people do that to”

Miliani kept her smile, "I enjoy smiling. I prefer it more than being sad, don't you?"

sarai{Ehl} "I guess...so other than swimming and eating people...what else do you do Miss"

Miliani gave up trying to explain that she did not eat people. "I work at the Real Estate Office; soon the General Store and I enjoy spending time with my lover and Master."

sarai{Ehl} "Oh, your a slave then?"

Miliani nodded, "Yes, but not officially yet, but I hope so."

sarai{Ehl} "does he eat people as well?"

Miliani tried to not sigh at the 'eating people thing' "I do not eat people and he does not as well."

sarai{Ehl} I nodded, "Oh alright, I'll keep your secret Miss" I smiled and winked

Miliani nodded. "So any more questions?"

sarai{Ehl} "erm...yes, if you could sum all this up in one word, what would it be? Fishies?"

Miliani shook her head, "Trust." she smiled as she rose from her seat, "Thank you for the interview."

((See...a person eating merfishie))

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