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Entry log #1:
Hello, My name is Francesca Dukas and I am the only female Celtic researcher.
The boat ride was nauseating and the train ride was loud but it was all worth it to get here, here being the west coast Scotland but it has just what I was looking for.
A Selkie.
Selkie’s are mermaid type creatures that are half human half seal, And was there am here to find one. Other people have found mermaids and sirens but no one has ever a Selkie. Until me
As soon as I found a cave to put my bags down I ran out to the coast to investigate. I looked around until nightfall and that’s when I first heard her voice. It was quiet and rough but it sounded so scared.
“Please help me.”
I whipped around, frightened but I calmed as I saw her. A short pale woman with white-greyish hair who was very pregnant, she was almost naked if not for a coat that looked scarily like a seal. She was also covered in blood.
“Oh my god!” I gasped as I rushed towards her, grabbing her arms and examining her. She had a giant gash in her chest right over her collar bone gushing blood. I took off my shall shoving in her hands an explaining to her to put to the gash. I took her hand, rushing her to my cave.
When we arrived the woman looked dead. Somehow she was even more pale than she was before, and she could barely even stand. As I laid her down on my cot and I rushed to my med kit to grab a lighter, a needle and thread and some cloth. I gave her the cloth telling her to bite down on it, I thread and heat the needle over the lighter. I hold down her shoulder and I start sewing it up. Tears well up in her eyes as she stars screaming and thrashing around, for the woman it probably felt like hours but in reality it was only a few minutes. As I finished and started dressing the wound I could only feel pity for her, she looked so distressed and scared so to try and calm her I asked her what her name was. “Aine.” She said taking the cloth out of her mouth and throwing it on the floor.
“Thats a beautiful name.” I say as I finish dressing the wound. I looked down a her baby bump smiling and saying “How far along are you? Maybe after I finish I could try can find your husband?”
She looked at me smiling and saying “Nine months” then realizing the second question and mumble “I don’t have a husband.” Then she looked towards the entrance of the cave to the sea.
“Oh ok, that’s fine you can stay here for a little bit.” I whispered As stepped back and then when I took a closer look at Aine’s coat.
It was seal skin no doubt but what was strange was how real it looked, its eyes looked alive and that when I realized it.
“You’re a Selkie.”