Vellamo Deepreef
the Grit-Voiced Siren
Vellamo, from the Finnish goddess of waves, and Deepreef, for the reef's sunless crevices; you are named for the bitter taste of salt and the pearl that never sees light.
Pearlblind — you can draw a pearl from your palm that holds a single memory of the drowned, but each pearl leaves a grain of that memory lodged in your throat, and your voice grows rougher with every one you give away.
- Familiar
- a one-eyed manta ray named Slant
- Tide
- the Black Reef Drift
‘You are too heavy for this water,’ you said, and the coral groaned. The reef remembers when you first arrived—clutching a dead sailor's locket, your hair full of barnacles. They say you bargained with the undertow for a body that could hold the cold. The locket is empty now, but you still wear it, and when you sing, the pearls inside your chest rattle like teeth.