Ever since Hope climbed onto the tiny island, to live with her beloved Sailor, Rasmus, who disappeared while fishing from his boat long ago, she has tried to keep her menories alive. Life on Hope Terra is so different from how trhe Mer People lives underwater. She thought some detailes might be scary to the four, but now they are old enough...
Only three of them inherited the Mer scales. Both the boys can swim like real mermen, while only Shimmerita of the girls can do the same. Animere is probably 100% human, and always felt different. She is also the only one who wear shoes, while her siblings prefer to walk about barefooted.
Hope tells them about her little family that lived near Portal of Mersea South, the huge rock they can see from Hope Terra. Hope's parents are dead since long, and because she lost the Mer language, she has not been able to communicate with the Mermaids and Mermen that she knows. The Mersea group seems to count fewer members, and maybe some of the older members are dead already. Hope's four children have already made contact with a new generation mermen and mermaids, that Hope doesn't know.
She tells them that once they become young adults they will need to find spouses from the Mersea group. She tells them how she climbed onto land when she decided to live with their father. Hope thinks that they just will need to meet the right one, don't worry too much about how it will work. When they find their spouses, they will start their own small families here on Hope Terra. They will either expand this house further, or build a new home for each of them! Hope Terra will be like a small village!
Hope wishes that Rasmus could have been part of the future. She is afraid of getting old, of being the only one getting old. Her children and her grandchildren will probably not have time for her. She gazes through the bedroom window. Will it be her duty to swim through the Portal of Mersea South? Like her mother, Shimmere, did? Like her father, Aquator, probably did, too?
Hope and the girls get more time to talk about the future while Aquid and Davitor are out fishing from Rasmus' old boat. Hope understands that the girls did not yet make contact to any specific merman out there, and she urges them to work on it. Nothing can be worse than not finding themselves a spouse!
Animere, the one with no scales on her legs, is most worried. She doesn't even dare to join the teen boys in the water, she is afraid of the sharks that won't attack a mermaid, which she is not...
Life goes on, and each is busy with their chores.
Aquid is the oldest. He has already tended their garden for many years, he thinks that he will inherite this house, but will they all live here? He wants a large family, to help with the plants. Maybe they can sell food to the others - if they settles elsewhere?
Davitor has not yet thought a lot of his future. He just likes to paint and to fish. He thought that he would be a teenager forever, is he ready to grow up? What if Aquid claims him and his sisters to move out, where will they go? Two on the beaches and one at the spot they call Court Garden?
Animere is scared. How on Earth will she find a spouse who lives in the waters? Why can't the others help her, it would made it so much easer!
Shimmerita, the youngest, is quite dreamy. She won't mind to move into a smaller house, even if she needs to stay there all alone. She spends hours on the beaches alone, looking out for mermen. Some days she sees a black figure swimming out there. She learned about the Mudder group, and understands that it would definitely be a bad move to find a spouse from the Mudder group!
Hope tells them more.
Their grandfather, Aquator, once made a secret Kelp Garden. It's down there in the waters, butr Hope never found it. He told her to follow the large table corals, they will show the way. But Hope looked, and never found the garden. She hopes that at least Aquid, Davitor and Shimmerita will give it a try some day.
Aquid's young adult birthday is soon coming up! He needs to know who gets to keep the old house and the garden.
Hope never thought of that. She realizes there won't bee room for four families in the same house. She sys that the first to marry will get the house. The other three will need to build a new house, somewhere. They will of course all help with the building, and none of them will be forced to move on their own before they get married.
All of them but Animere spend lots of time in the waters.
Aquid is pretty excited about growing up shortly. He challenges his brother Davitor to swim faster. He also insists on rowing the boat when they go fishing. He likes to think that if he stays in charge, it will be easier to keep the house.
One day the brothers are in the red boat, Aquid doesn't seem to stop rowing. He has decided - it's time to find out how far they can get! He keeps asking himself what is out there? If he can row the boat out there and back home, he will prove once and for all that he is the strongest!
This ends Season 1. Season 2 will be announced later :)
On the Hope Terra main page you will find all the household members' current cards :)
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