Selina
Legacy Name: Selina

Atargatis: Selina - Window of the Moon.

Tormented souls mark her rise.
For as they mold through a dark, lonely sigh
Into a glow

Who's not enchanted by the trembling light,
Selina's moon is sending to the earth?
See her, walk side by side,
the widow leads you into the night.

Who's not enchanted by the fateful sound,
Her voice gets through your innermost part.
See her, walk side by side,
the widow leads you into the night.
Feel no warmth in her veins,
only the lust for your life beats in her heart.

The moonrays are wandering over the waves,
They follow her footpath into the sea.
Selina - bright widow of the pale moon
Selina's darkness may embrace you soon.

See her, walk side by side,
the widow leads you into the night.
Feel no warmth in her veins,
only the lust for your life beats in her heart.

Selina - follow her into the night
Selina's face is so pale but so bright
Selina's shadows are floating through the night
Selina's hair catch the silver moonlight
Selina's face is so pale but so bright
Selina - follow her into the night, into the night

"... because you are the last."

Those words kept ringing in her ears.
There she stood, in the moonlight... all alone. And lonely.
'Where is this place... are there others like me?' Selinas thoughts wandered.
For a long time, she had been alone.
She was different from the other Popokos. Instead of two horns she was born with only one... on her forehead. There had been others like her but something wiped them out centuries ago.Even Selina's husband could not escape.
And she blamed herself for it.
Since that time, nobody had dared to stay near her, talk to her, play with her... spend time with her.
Everyone was afraid to get killed as well. It was an unspoken rule that it was forbidden to go near one horned Popokos. They were said to have unique powers that only a few knew about.
To grant immortality, but at a price.
Other people just kept listening to the old stories that Popokos like Selina would bring bad luck for your life.
Over the years, Selina had changed. From the young, cheerful squirrel-like creature to something darker.
Loneliness had made her that way.
Since there was no way to bring back her own race, she would try to get closer to humans to find out what might have happened to her friends... or to learn to understand humans.
She would transform into a beautiful bright-skinned young lady with light blue hair and start singing.
Sing in the most beautiful voice mankind has ever heard... and lure young men to her that way.
They would sit beside the old lake or at the beach and talk for hours. Not about her, but about him. The last question she gave... was
"What do you long for the most?"
To her dismay, the answer almost always was the same.
"Immortality."
She would give a pained laugh.
"You know nothing about immortality. Who wants to live forever? Watch your friends pass away over the years and in the end you're all alone."
Nobody had ever given her another answer beside "You are crazy, woman. If you do not wish for an eternal life, you are insane. Imagine all the things I could do if I was immortal..."
Thunder cracked. The sea was going wild.
"If that is what you wish... then you shall live forever... in the sea."
With that, the waves began towering and before the young man could run, a huge one crashed down and swallowed him.
After that, silence.


'One day', Selina thought.
One day she would get the information she needed to find out what happened to her kind.
Until that day, she would continue to stay alone... understood by nobody but the moon.

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credits: upper bg © The last Unicorn, flowers from google, coding, drawing, story and rest by Myuu, overlay by nu123