TRISSTANA GLASSER
xxx The price of your greed
xxx Is your son and your daughter
xxx What you gon' do
xxx When there's blood in the water?
Triss and Zada had barely walked inside and into the crowded room when the mermaid pulled out her phone talking about if she was needed somewhere. Triss just shrugged and followed her into the back room, grabbing a drink off the table before they entered the back room.
Triss sat in a chair and crossed her legs as more people started to enter, and a platinum blonde looking female creature went to the center and began talking. She didn’t really pay attention to what she was saying, but was surprised when wings expanded from the creatures back, black in color. Ah… an angel… hadn’t seen one before… interesting. She thought to herself, not surprised too much since Zada had told her about how different types of creatures and beings lived their lives in Greythorne, it being a sort of a sanctuary.
Though as this angel continued speaking, revealing a sort of tattoo, everyone in the room started to show some symptoms of being upset, and the angel continued to apologize for something that was years ago. Trisstana glanced over at Zada and just saw her staring at the angel, before just getting up and storming off. Triss looked around at the others and finished her drink before trying to catch up with Zada, grabbing her jacket off the table on her way out.
It didn’t take long for her to catch up to Zada, assuming she was heading home and she was right. Triss kept her hands in her pocket and didn’t say much during the walk, feeling the energy off of Zada that she didn’t want to talk. Though she would ask her later on what this was all about as she had no idea what was going on. As they entered Zada’s place, the mermaid turned and spoke to her, about not knowing people fully and apologizing. “Its… okay?” Was all Triss really able to say before Zada went to her room and closed the door. She shrugged to herself before going to the bathroom and wiping herself down from the coffee and quickly going to sleep.
The next day Trisstana walked into Zada’s room and saw her still in bed. “I’m going to take a bath, soak for a little bit.” She said as she walked in, setting down a bottle of wine on Zada’s nightstand before starting the water and filling the tub, coming back to fill a wine glass and de-dress herself. Triss took a few sips before stepping into the tub and laying down, her body transforming and she submerged herself underwater.
It wasn’t long before Zada entered the bathroom with a book and sat on the edge of the tub, the two woman just relaxing and not saying much to the other. A few times Triss would move to look over the mermaid’s shoulder and catch a few words of the book in between her turning pages, but would then just circle back and submerged back under the bath water.
Over the next few days Zada finally told Trisstana at the table during lunch what was going on with the angel, their name being Neden, and that they used to be a hunter. Triss stared blankly as Zada said that, as she had a flashback back to when she was captured. The cold concrete floor and the metal bars keeping her in, only being given a bucket of water to keep her from drying out. The betrayal was all she could think about during that time.
Trisstana snapped out of it when she heard Zada say her name a few times. “Oh… yeah. Zoned out. It was just…” She trailed off and paused with the moment of silence. Triss had never told anyone about what happened, and never planned to. It was one of the few times she was weak in her life and she never wanted to be viewed as weak. “I just have some history with some sort of hunters…” She trailed off as she put down her food and went back to the guest room and closed the door behind her.
One night when Zada was taking a bath, Triss knocked and entered, actually saying sorry about the other morning about walking away. She then set on the edge of the bathtub and told her about the time she was betrayed by her lover at the time and sold to some hunters, though not sure if it was the same people Neden was with. Triss kept her eyes on the ground as she retold the story, not letting her eyes tear up but easily showing distress in her face. She felt weak and vulnerable telling this to the mermaid, not even sure why she was, but it just felt right to tell her.