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When the war came, she went, not to ground, as so many of her friends and cousins did, but to water, to the sea.
The bombs were falling all around, but she slipped on her seal skin and slid under the water, down where the Leviathan still remembered her, down where her other family, her seal family, still lived. She found the little place she had built, so long ago, where those like her - and those like dolphins and true seals, merfolk and otters - could breathe safe air, deep under the ocean and yet dry and homey. The humans were clever, but none smart enough to find this place.
It was not the first time she had gone to see, and it would likely not be her last. She was, if not eternal, near unto it, and she did not like war at all.
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alexseanchai's promptWhen the war came, she went, not to ground, as so many of her friends and cousins did, but to water, to the sea.
The bombs were falling all around, but she slipped on her seal skin and slid under the water, down where the Leviathan still remembered her, down where her other family, her seal family, still lived. She found the little place she had built, so long ago, where those like her - and those like dolphins and true seals, merfolk and otters - could breathe safe air, deep under the ocean and yet dry and homey. The humans were clever, but none smart enough to find this place.
It was not the first time she had gone to see, and it would likely not be her last. She was, if not eternal, near unto it, and she did not like war at all.
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