Once upon a time.

All the best stories start that way (have you read my Mr. Composure?).  I'm starting this little tail... oops, I mean tale... that way too.

Once upon a time, Aren, the mermaid princess, was nice.  She longed for wider horizons and deeper oceans, but she was not on a murderous hunt for the killer of her mother.

She met a young boy who became her friend.  A human boy who would, many years later, be her ally.

She also discovered the truth - or so she thought - about how her mother died.  Her path was changed.  Her destiny revealed.  Her rage unbound.

Read the origins of Aren in my new story, And the Meek Shall Begin, in the amazing collection "Sands of Time - A Tales of the Deep Anthology" by talesoftehdeep

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