The concept of a siren has always fascinated me. In the plethora of myths and tales across generations, sirens are usually expected to take the form of a mermaid with long, scaly tails and beautiful songs accompanying their melodic, but sinister voices. However, the original notion of the siren is completely different from what the average individual today might think. A siren is, in actuality, a half-bird, half-women, creatures unbeknownst to the strange underwater depths. In Homer's renowned The Odyssey, sirens do in fact take the form of winged creatures... This misconception often skews the reality of many books and stories told in current times. Where did the belief that sirens are a form of mermaids really come from?
The whisperers of the night had claimed that when a siren resided among the clouds and the blue skies for too long, the orange suns would burn their sable hair and paint it a red like the fiery blazes of heat. Valerine had never been in the twofolk world and she did not believe the tomfoolery of the whisperers. In her youth, her mother had told her that the men above would do terrible things if she was not careful. Yet the siren had taken the form of a man and with that, she had also taken the man’s pure brute and strength and physical appearance, his strong legs and tanned body all of her own to command. Even her voice, a husky and virile sound, was an unfamiliar presence.
She would be invincible.
