Quick Wear: Driving Gods in a Dark Fairy Tale

"Tiss, are you really okay?"

The worry in the old mermaid's eyes had not disappeared. She waved to Tess, and after Tess lay on her fish tail as docilely as always, she gently stroked the top of Tess's head - repeating the familiar action that she had done thousands of times to comfort her young granddaughter.

"I'm really fine, Grandma," said Tess.

Her voice was soft and a little hoarse, with a strong sense of weariness that came from removing the disguise of vigilance.

Grandma stroked her back gently: "My dear baby, if you are tired, just sleep a little longer."

"The little mermaid must be happy forever."

"No." Tis refused: "I don't want to sleep anymore. I want to listen to my grandma finish the story just now. Is that okay?"

"Of course my child," said the grandmother, "but you can also fall asleep listening to the story, and perhaps you will have a good dream."

"But before that, could you tell me, dear, where did you hear just now?"

Tiss slowly recalled what she heard before falling asleep: "I seem to have heard that humans have eternal souls."

Her eyes lit up, as if she had discovered some extremely precious treasure, and she showed a rare ups and downs in emotion:

"Really, Grandmother? Can such fragile creatures as humans possess eternal souls?"

"It's true." Grandmother gave Tess an affirmative answer.

"Although humans seem so fragile compared to mermaids, and a small wave can swallow them and drown them. But they also have something we don't have - a soul. Dear, you know that mermaids don't have souls."

Grandma's gaze fell on the coral reef in the distance that was always bright.

"Mermaids don't have souls. Even though their lifespan is many times longer than that of humans, without souls there is no way for them to reincarnate, let alone ascend to heaven. We will eventually sleep in the corals and become a bright and shining star in the sky."

Grandma smiled and joked: "If one day I am no longer around, when night falls, come to that coral reef and look up at the sky. If there is a star that keeps blinking at you, that is me greeting my dear Tis."

Tis hugged her waist and buried her head in her arms, and said in a muffled voice: "I don't want my grandmother to become a star."

She said: "I don't want my sisters to become stars either."

"Why can humans have eternal souls after death, have the opportunity to reincarnate and enter heaven, but mermaids don't? How wonderful it would be if mermaids also had eternal souls. We would never be separated and would always live peacefully and happily in Atlantis like we do now."

Grandmother smiled and replied: "It is indeed the cub's idea - does Tisi want to have an eternal soul?"

Tiss didn't hesitate at all: "I want to."

She wanted to have an eternal soul.

If she had an immortal soul, she could always protect Atlantis, her loved ones, and everything she cared about, without having to worry about suddenly falling down in the coral reef one day and being completely annihilated.

She will protect this place forever as she promised to the sea god, using time, blood, strength, and even life, using everything she has to protect Atlantis.

Immortal and indestructible.

No one knew what Tis was thinking at this moment. Her grandmother just looked at her as if she was joking. After a moment of silence, she said, "Well... I have heard that there is a way to obtain a human soul."

"What's the solution, grandma?" the dark blue mermaid couldn't help but ask.

"Let a human fall in love with you, let him love you more than his relatives, even himself, put all his love and thoughts on you, be willing to be loyal to you for life, and be willing to give you everything, even his life. In this way, you can obtain the eternal and immortal soul of that human."

Tis said almost immediately: "This is impossible!"

"So this is just a story I heard," said the grandmother. "At least since I heard this story, I have never seen a human being willing to fall in love with a mermaid, willing to give everything for the mermaid, and let the mermaid obtain his eternal soul."

“After all, this is really too difficult.”

"How could anyone go to such lengths for love?"