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As I dive into the deep, something catches my eye. "Is that a creature?" I say as I spy. I dive deeper. My oxygen is on an average level. It looks like a human. "What is this creature?" I say to myself. As I look closer, into her spell. She's beautiful. Her skin blue, like the sea-foam. Her eyes an ethereal shade of gray. I see her hair floating gracefully, strands of it astray. Flowing so carelessly through the water. "Who and what are you?" I ask. She has ignored me. I ask again. "Who and what are you?". She looks at me. A bubble comes through her mouth. "That answer is simple. I am not human." she replies. "But you're beautiful. I haven't seen something not human to be beautiful despite the most graceful of roses and that only." I say, in disbelief. "That is what troubles humans like you, so I would rather not say my name." she speaks. I stand there, in my scuba-diving suit. My oxygen lowers. "May I at least get to know you?" I request. "No, you may not." she replies. "Why?". "Since you have said I'm beautiful, you will fall in love with me." I idle by, seeing her point. "But you are not human, I would obviously not fall in love with you." I say. "Maybe you are stubborn after all." The creature says, reaching out to my hand. She holds my hand carefully. "But I would have fallen in love with you if it didn't mean falling in love with a creature." I say, saddened. "That is correct, and I would've fallen in love with you if that didn't meant falling with a mortal." she says. My oxygen tank alarms me, saying that it is almost no more. I am in the deeper depths of the ocean. I need to go back. "I need to go back." I say to her. "But you want to stay, don't you?". She answers. "Yes, I do." I let go of her sea foam-colored hand, and stay afloat in that area, as my oxygen tank alarms me one last time. "I do want to stay. Maybe it isn't so bad here after all."