Meridian Sirensurge
the Noonreef Siren
Named for the hour when the sun stands directly overhead and the coral polyps close their mouths, and for the surge that carries her voice through the reef.
Coralvoice — you can speak to the limestone lattice of the reef, and it will bend to your will, but every word you speak to it hardens a little more of yourself, until you fear you will become a statue of your own making.
- Familiar
- a sea cucumber named Thrum
- Tide
- the Midday Surge
You keep a garden of coral that you have shaped with your voice. Not all of it is living. You have learned that the reef remembers sounds better than it remembers faces, and that is why you sing only at noon. Sailors think you are a myth. They are half right. You are the myth that happens after the midday sun bleaches the color from everything, and you have been shaping coral long enough that some of it has begun to shape you back.