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6- Water

James reached into one of his trunks and pulled out some leaves, they looked like they'd been sewn together.  It was like the camouflage soldiers used to use hundreds of years ago, before invisibility technology had been created. He then pulled out a bucket.

"You're lucky I made a few just in case this one broke," he said, tossing me a pile of leaves. He slid the leaves over his head, and I realized that it was a cloak he'd made. He hadn't been wearing one when we'd first met. Strange.

I pulled mine over my head and tried to ignore the skin crawling feeling of the leaves against my skin. I had never felt such a feeling before, but I'd lived on earth all my life so that wasn't a surprise. Earth was a slum, infested with greed and emptied of most valuable resources. It had been a beautiful place once, but it hadn't been since long before I was born.

Most people moved to other planets, planets with forests and clear oceans. But moving away was expensive, and required citizenship to another planet. My family had been hopelessly poor, and no one would even consider giving us passes to leave earth.

I'd become a pilot in hopes to leave.

"Come on," James barked. He pulled me outside, and I almost screamed when I realized that we were in a tree.

"A tree?" I exclaimed.

"It's safer in the summer," was his only explanation.

He shushed me and said that I had to be quiet, which was understandable. We instead walked through the green forests for awhile, James creeping silently and me falling over branches behind him.

We stopped at a pool of water and James pushed me back far away from it. He fished a golden stone from underneath his leaves and took a few steps forwards. The pool seemed to connect to a deep river, and I imagined then to the ocean. 

James was almost at the water's edge when he stopped abruptly. He threw the golden stone into the water, where it splashed and caused ripples throughout the perfect blue of it.

He waited a few seconds longer. And waited some more. The bucket he held hung limply in his hand.

Slowly, something began to move to the surface in the water. It came up and up until it was coming out of the water. A head, then a chest and arms. It looked like... a mermaid. Or a siren. It's skin was pink like the sand of the beach and it's eyes blue like the water.

I guessed it was a she by the amount of skin that was exposed, and she was staring right at James with a content look in her eyes. She had a gigantic tail the color of her skin, and her hands were more like flexible fins. She held the golden stone.

She didn't have a nose, I realized. Only grotesque slits on her forehead. Her mouth opened, displaying a few rows of sharp teeth. Slowly, her head nodded.

James walked forwards and scooped up some water with his bucket. He stepped away again and waved, at which point she raised a fin and moved it in return. We walked back into the forest, and when we were far enough away I started to talk.

"What the hell was that thing?" 

"A water creature," he responded, "kind of like a shark with the brain level of a human."

"How did you know it wouldn't kill you?" I asked.

"We have a deal. I bring her rocks and she lets me have water, I'm pretty sure she sells them underwater. They're worth lots because none of her kind can come on land and collect rocks like those themselves."

"How do you communicate?"

He thought for a moment, "She pointed to a rock the first time I tried to get water from her pool, I kind of guessed."

I nodded and didn't say anything else. She was like something straight out of a fairytale. I'd met many aliens before, but I'd never seen them in their natural environment. 

I guessed that in this situation, I was the alien. 

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