Ula Palewave
the Fossilsinger Siren
Ula, from the old word for sea-jewel; Palewave, for the blanched crest of a wave that has broken for centuries.
You can coax buried shells to rise from the seabed and arrange them into protective barriers, but each shell crumbles to dust after use, and you feel the age of the sea pressing against your bones.
- Familiar
- A slow-moving starfish named Mote
- Tide
- the Pale Crest
People say you are older than the first tide, that your hair is the color of dried kelp and your voice sounds like stones grinding at low water. You do not correct them. You remember when the shorelines were different, when the continents were closer together, and you have kept a single spiral shell from that time, which you run your thumb over until it is smooth as glass.