Undine & Her Tempestuous Mind

She was a storm, almost always.

Lost in the middle of the great island, her skin dried and withered with her heart and she sang a lament for the ocean storms, the waves that had given her life and the wind that had blown her soul into being. 

With the autumn came the heather, and a strange new wind. The wind blew her southwards and when she awoke in the morning, her lover, the ocean greeted her and cradled her in it's arms. 

She longed never to become lost on land again, but instead to be engulfed by the waters and swallowed so that she may exist a part of it forever. She wanted it to be so much so that she would readily shed her skin and become only pure soul.

But she had a promise to keep. 

For now, her fate lay on the land. 

So instead Ocean visited her in her dreams, and some nights sang to her as she slept. 

She was haunted by visions of her past life and future life where there was no place for metal and smoke. 

She clung to those dreams for they were a promise.

That one day, she could shed her human skin

and be Undine again.