Her Little Mermaid

Anna didn't bother to contain her shock. "Have you touched a lot of people?"

Isolde shrugged, "My sailor and my princess."

"Your princess?"

"She was not royalty, but she taught me Spanish. She escaped from a ship when it stopped near my village. I pulled her out of the Deepening Pools before the squid got her."

"I'm sorry, what?!"

Isolde shook her head, "Are you sure you're comfortable with English?"

Anna rolled her eyes, "Of course I speak English, just some things you talk about...I have no reference for."

"I see."

They sat for a moment, both eying each other. Anna was trying to convince herself she hadn't gone crazy, Isolde was just admiring. Finally, the mermaid broke the silence.

"Your stripes are beautiful."

"I- I don't have stripes," Anna furrowed her brow.

Isolde nodded enthusiastically. "Yes you do! Here and here." Her fingers traced long, swirling patterns down Anna's arms and sides. "Can you not see them?"

Anna leaned into the soft caress, "No, I can't," she whispered.

"Hmm... maybe it's because I have underwater eyes and you have surfacer eyes."

"Maybe."

The little mermaid's fingers continued to trace patterns on the tan woman's skin. She ran them up Anna's neck and under her chin. The brunette shivered and let her eyes close. She felt her touch brush down her back then around her hip and over her thigh. Soft fingertips grazed the muscles inside her thigh, causing a light gasp to escape Anna's lips.

"Can I touch you more?" Isolde's voice was low and garbled. Anna opened her eyes to fall into the deep blue pools of the mermaid's gaze. She nodded dreamily. Fingers traced the skimpy bikini top and pulled at the tie along the back of her neck. Suddenly, the knot released and Anna's perky breasts sprang free. Isolde groaned and threw her legs over Anna's body, pinning her to the sand.

Wait. Legs?

"Isolde! Wh- where's your tail?"

The former mermaid smiled, "I don't need it right now. I need legs. So I have legs."

"Oh, right. Simple."

Isolde giggled, "Come here silly Anna. I want to kiss you."

To Anna's surprise, Isolde dove for her breasts and sucked a nipple into her mouth. She moaned as the mermaid used her mouth and fingers all over her chest. Little red marks bloomed on the taller woman's skin as the mermaid sucked and nibbled. She kissed up her jaw and paused to catch Anna's eyes. Then her plump pink lips covered red ones as they stared into each other's eyes. Isolde's were the first to close as Anna's tongue pressed into her mouth.

Anna felt the sharper teeth and the stronger tongue. It was foreign and familiar. Alien and comfortable. She moaned as Isolde ground her hips down. The mermaid's soft, hairless mound pressed onto her thigh, causing Anna to feel the dampness on her skin. She pulled her mouth away to look down and see more of the mermaid-turned-woman.

Isolde's legs were the same pale palette as the rest of her body with blue veins appearing through thin skin. Her entire frame was smaller than Anna's but filled with raw power. Her muscles were toned under a fine layer of plumpness. Anna thought briefly of a 1940s pinup girl with the way Isolde's soft curves still revealed the muscle underneath.

Anna found herself pinned to the sand as a pale hand separated her thighs and dove straight for their mark. She cried out when Isolde hit her clit, rubbing circles over the nub before dipping lower. The brunette squirmed as her bikini bottoms were swept aside to make way for fingers to enter her vagina. Isolde didn't tease her folds or pause to toy with her, she drove in straight for her goal. Two fingers deep in Anna's pussy.

"Oh shit!" Anna moaned. "You don't waste time!"

Isolde grinned, "I told you what I wanted. I want to touch you and feel you." Her tongue came out and licked Anna's neck from shoulder or earlobe. "It has been too long since I've felt a woman cum undone. You will cum for me, Anna."

Anna groaned as fingers explored her then began a slow rhythm in and out of her. The nibbling on her neck, the push of the fingers in her cunt, and the roughness of the sand on her ass drove her mad. She'd never let go like this. One night stands were not her mode of operation. She rocked into the hands holding her with a strange, wild abandon.

"Yes, yes!"

Her orgasm came like a tidal wave from her toes to her hair. Everything felt electric.

"Good, cum for me, beautiful Anna."

Squeezing her eyes closed, the brunette kept cumming all over the mermaid's hand. Her body shook and finally gave out as every muscle released onto the sand. Isolde stopped her head from hitting the shore too hard, cradling her surfacer in her arms.

"Wow," Anna gasped when she successfully forced her eyes open. Her eyes went wider when she was greeted with the sight of Isolde licking her fingers.

"You taste amazing," she moaned. Then before Anna could prepare, Isolde dove forward and buried her face between her legs. She cried out as the mermaid's tongue flicked back-and-forth across her clit. Her fingers immediately threaded into the blonde hair, her little finger brushing a pale seashell.

"Isoooooolde!" she moaned as the mermaid licked furiously. Then two fingers pressed into her again and Anna thrust her hips forward in response.

The wiggly surfacer tasted salty and sweet to the blonde. She couldn't get enough of the moans either. She'd missed surface talk and hearing the higher frequency of birds and wind. The fingers tangled in her hair began to pull her in tighter and Isolde knew her brunette was going to cum. Flicking her tongue faster over her hard pearl caused the final release. Anna gushed over Isolde's fingers and chin, whimpering her name as she climaxed.

Keeping her fingers deep inside, Isolde shifted up to kiss Anna's stomach, then nipples, and finally her throat. Anna's breathing evened out as the mermaid slowly withdrew her fingers again. Her legs fell to the side, complete jelly. Isolde laughed when she saw the dazed look on the surface woman's face.

"Did you enjoy that?"

Anna's answer came as a gasp, "Yes!"

"Good. Let's go again-"

"Whoa!" Anna blocked Isolde's head as she dove for her clit once more. "I need a moment. You made me a little oversensitive."

"Two rounds and you are done? Surfacers have changed quite a lot since my princess."

"Hey now! I bet you couldn't go more rounds than that."

Isolde flashed an evil smile, "Try me." Her legs fell open and Anna saw the pretty pink of her folds glistening with arousal.

Licking her lips like a hungry predator, Anna crawled down the sand and pulled Isolde's pale legs over her shoulders. She threw a glance over toward the beach, but nothing could be seen from their alcove, so she turned back to the wet pussy in front of her. She pushed a tentative lick out into the mermaid's center. The flavor that hit her was salt and sunshine, like she could taste the heat of the sun's rays on the water. Confidently, she drove forward, licking and sucking every soft circle of flesh.

Isolde grinned at the first hesitant lick, that was how her princess had started too. But then, Anna surprised her. A hot tongue enveloped her pearl before it slipped into her. The strong muscle attacked all of the right places as the mermaid felt herself quickly losing control. She moaned when Anna gripped her thighs tighter and focused her tongue on one spot. Isolde came apart quickly and hard with a breathy shout, but the surface woman didn't stop.

She clamped the wiggly thighs harder and drove her tongue deeper. Anna didn't need to use her fingers, the woman under her was already on her way to her second orgasm. The pale fingers were vice-like in her hair and the mermaid's chest was beet red. When Anna backed off to tease her, the noise Isolde emitted was nothing of the surface world. She let out a string of sounds that Anna could not interpret except that they were clearly curses.

"Do NOT tease me you-"

Anna didn't let her finish the threat as she applied her whole tongue to the mermaid's clit and watched her orgasm come crashing around both of them. Isolde shook and screeched, alternating between pushing Anna away and pulling her closer. After a solid minute, she finally relaxed, her arms and legs falling into the soft sand.

"What, are you done after two rounds?" Anna teased while kissing the inside of her thigh.

Isolde picked her head up out of the sand to look at Anna over the swell of her breasts. "I underestimated you, but no, I am not done. I've gone without for far too long to stop now."

Anna pulled herself up over the mermaid's stomach and rested there a moment, "How long? I mean, I know you said you don't understand, uh, surfacer time, but can you give me an idea?"

The mermaid thought for a moment. "My princess spoke Spanish. She escaped from a wooden ship, not a shiny one like yours. She was brought over as a new bride, against her will, and she was with child."

Anna's eyes went wide. "She was pregnant?"

Isolde nodded, "We raised our daughter together until she was an old woman. Both are buried on our island as is the custom for surfacers."

"Oh, Isolde. I- I'm so sorry."

"It was a long time ago. But she was the last I had. My princesa." The mermaid had a misty look in her eye for just a moment before shaking her head. "But now I have found an Anna! Will you stay with me?"

The brunette's mouth popped open in a perfect 'O'. "Oh, um, well I- I don't live here. I mean, that's not my ship. I can't just leave it. They have to bring me back."

Isolde cocked her head, "Do you also have a husband bringing you to the new world?"

"No, no, nothing like that. I'm on vacation. A trip. You see, it was supposed to be my honeymoon but my fiancee...well, she left me."

"And why would she leave a beautiful woman like you?"

Anna blushed, "I have my fair share of problems. She just got tired of it." She sat up and looked out over the water. "Trust me, you don't want to jump on this crazy train. I've got enough issues on my own."

"What is a crazy train?"

Anna laughed, "Oh it's just a saying. Meaning I am a mess and no one would want me around for too long."

The mermaid shrugged, "But of course I want you around! We will get to know each other and help each other. Relationships are all both ways, yes? I help you and you help me."

"Symbiotic."

"Cymbals odic?"

"No no," Anna giggled, "symbiotic relationships are when both species benefit from working or living together."

"There we go. Anna, will you be in a symbiotic relationship with me?"

The human woman bit her lip as she looked back over her shoulder at the naked blonde lying out on the white sand. Thoughts of her life slipped in and out like waves on the shore. She thought of her job and her tiny, cramped apartment near Daytona Beach. She thought of her friends, well, Ruby's friends, who she no longer spoke to. Memories of her mother disowning her at nineteen when she came out. Everything, in short, that drove her to guzzling overpriced drinks on a cheesy cruise ship all alone.

What have I got to lose?

"Alright, but I can't stay now. I have to get back on the ship tonight and finish the trip."

Isolde lit up, she hopped off the sand and crashed into Anna with a sweaty hug. "You will love the island! It is like here, but fewer people and many more birds. I have not been in many years, but I know the house is still there. It was made with the most beautiful shells and rocks. And we can plant the garden again! Oh dear Anna, you have made me so happy."

Anna hugged the mermaid back, but hesitated, "Where is this island? How will I find it?"

Isolde seemed to deflate, but she quickly rallied, "I will go with you on your boat, then we can seek the island together after your trip ends."

"You can't just come back to the ship with me. You have to have an ID, a passport."

"Okay, where do I get those?"

Anna sighed, "It's something the government issues, you can't just pick one up. Well, I suppose somewhere you could, but I don't know where to find those kinds of people. Prison maybe?"

Isolde put her hands on the brunette's shoulders. "Be calm, my Anna. I will follow you back in the water, then when it is dark, I will climb up to your window."

"That could work," she paused. "We'll have to be very careful not to be seen."

"I have all of the care," the mermaid winked.

_ _

It actually turned out to be quite easy to sneak Isolde in once the ship was quiet. Around two in the morning, Anna went to her balcony. The cruise ship was preparing to depart for their next stop and they could hear the roar of the engines starting. Anna caught the end of a rope Isolde had found. It was thick, old, and slimy, but strong. She dragged the end inside and tied it to the bed frame which only had two legs and was attached to the wall. Isolde climbed partway up with just her arms, tail slapping the hull, then used her feet once they appeared. She slipped naked and wet over the railing to Anna's veranda and the two women hauled up the rope and stored it in a drawer.

"Now what?" Anna asked after helping the mermaid dry off.

Isolde smirked and pushed her new friend back onto the bed. She hiked her legs up by holding her ankles and spread them apart. "Now I'm going to lick you."

Anna keened when Isolde's tongue hit her. The way the powerful muscle snaked into and around her pussy felt alien. It was longer and stronger than any human tongue Anna had felt. She threw her hands out to brace herself on the bed as Isolde owned her folds. When she came it was silent and intense with every muscle in her body convulsing in response.

She didn't collapse this time though, the brunette wanted to have more of her mermaid. Tensing her muscles again, she freed herself from Isolde's grasp and pulled her up onto the bed before climbing on top. She gripped Isolde into a half sitting position then entwined their legs and mashed their pussies together.

Isolde moaned in appreciation at the new position. They began rocking together, fingers gripping and pinching, legs tensing. Anna's clit pressed onto Isolde's as they both shuddered with pleasure. They continued to rock as the mermaid neared her peak, gasping with every pleasurable thrust. Isolde squeezed her eyes closed and pulled Anna closer as her orgasm began to crash through her. Suddenly, Anna felt sharp teeth on her collarbone as the mermaid's pussy spasmed and squirted beneath her.

When they pulled apart, the blonde had left a tiny bite mark and larger hickey on her partner's neck. Anna saw it and grinned while the mermaid looked sheepish.

"I am sorry for biting you."

"No, don't apologize. I'm into it," Anna winked.

They fell together onto the soft bed, tangled up in the limited space. Anna's head rested on Isolde's arm and her hand rubbed circles on her soft belly. Lips brushed her dark hair and Isolde hummed quietly.

"So what do we do next?" the mermaid asked.

Anna looked up, "If you want, you can stay for the rest of the trip. You'll probably have to hide in here most of the time, but there's thousands of people on the ship, I suppose no one would notice if you went on deck once in a while."

"And then?"

"Then when we get back to Miami, you'll have to slip back into the water and wait for me. I'll find a way to get rid of all my stuff, end my lease, and fly back to you."

Isolde rubbed her hand up and down Anna's shoulder. "Then we will go to our island."

"Isolde...How would I get to the island? I can't exactly swim like you."

The mermaid smiled, "We can sail. The boats I see now with white sails are different from the one my sailor built, but I'm sure I can learn. And anyway, some fishermen still know of us, mermaids as you call us. We could get help if we needed it."

"Tell me more about the island," Anna whispered.

Isolde murmured descriptions of birds and plant life, of sea creatures, and of teal waters until they both drifted off to sleep.

_ _

Hiding in plain sight aboard a cruise ship turned out to be easier than Anna had imagined. They visited the buffet and the larger pool decks without so much as a second glance from anyone. At night they retreated to the privacy of their room to have hours of sex until one or both of them begged off.

Two days before their arrival in Miami, all of their stealthing proved inconsequential. They were heading out for a light breakfast, Isolde dressed in some of Anna's spare clothes, when the housekeeper bumped into them bringing in fresh towels.

Amy's eyes went wide when she saw Isolde, "Rusalka!" she whispered.

"What?" Anna tried to block her view.

"Rusalka! You've brought one aboard."

"This is my frien-"

"Please spare us, Rusalka! You cannot be aboard this vessel. Please!" Amy fell on her face at Isolde's feet. The mermaid looked concerned and Anna's confusion didn't help.

"I- I do not intend to harm anyone."

"You will not send us to the underworld?" The housekeeper's voice came out muffled from the carpet.

"Amy, please stand up. Isolde will not hurt you."

Amy looked up cautiously, "But she is rusalki, a mermaid, and I have no rossen blooms to wear."

Anna looked to Isolde who shrugged. "Amy, she is a friend and neither of us have any idea what you are talking about."

The frightened housekeeper lifted her head and sat back on her heels. "In Bulgaria, we celebrate Rusalijska Nedelya, Mermaid Week. The mermaids like the rossen blossom, it makes them kind as they bless our fields. Please Rusalka, spare our vessel."

Isolde stepped forward and crouched to Amy. "Tell no one you saw me. Anna is alone. I will not harm you."

Amy nodded frantically, "Da, da, of course. No one."

"Good. Please leave us."

The housekeeper backed out the door and Isolde closed it tightly. Anna leaned against the bathroom door and heaved a breath.

"What was she talking about? How did she know?"

"I am not certain," Isolde sighed, "I believe merfolk, as you say, inhabit all the seas. Her culture must know of a different kind. I've never heard that language before."

Anna nodded absentmindedly. "We should be more careful. Why don't you sit on the veranda? I'll go get us some breakfast."

The rest of the trip, the two women stayed confined to the room, only ordering room service or having Anna go retrieve what they needed.

Reaching the port in the wee hours of the morning, Anna and Isolde lowered the rope down the side of the ship in the dark. The mermaid kissed her surfacer and slipped over the balcony edge naked. She had a small purse slung on her back with one of Anna's outfits in it. Anna watched to make sure she made it safely to the water before dropping the rope. Isolde blew a kiss and swam off to find a spot to get on land. They decided it was best if Isolde met her on land rather than waiting in the shipping channels where she could be hit or spotted.

Anna had never been so eager to be off a boat in her life. She joined the first group disembarking and launched through customs at record speed. She found Isolde wandering around the parking lot admiring herself in the mirrors and windows of the cars.

Anna had originally booked a flight back to Dayton, but now with Isolde, she opted to rent a car. The mermaid was fascinated by everything and everyone she saw, but Anna was eager to get home and start packing up her old life. Her phone chirped as service came back and a week's worth of communication assaulted her inbox, but she ignored it all.

"A book!" Isolde cried as they entered a gas station. She ran over to a small shelf where a few paperback romance novels sat collecting dust.

"You read?"

"Well, not really." Isolde picked up the book and turned it over gently in her hands. "My princesa taught me to read a book she had. I can only read Spanish."

Anna nodded, "There are books in many languages. I can teach you English."