The Proverbial War

Blushing hotly now I glanced up despite everything and said, "I'm glad you think so." I even smiled and perhaps I drew little bit closer to him.

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Koke blinked and then gasped. His mouth gaped open on a scream of fright as he realized he was submerged in water.

Wait a minute!

Why wasn't he drowning?

Koke's wild motions stilled as he calmed at the knowledge that he was somehow breathing water and not dead. What was going on in this place?

He lifted his head and surveyed his surroundings. He was laying on something soft and looking down once more it was to see that it was a spongy type of substance. It actually appeared to be alive!

His hands were tied to carved pillars to either side of the spongy mass that he lay on. Glancing to the side and behind his shoulder he saw two more columns. He was laying on an underwater bed!

A bed like no other to be sure!

He was in a cavelike room that was illuminated by all manner of items. The rock of the cave walls were seamed with glowing blue lines of color, while green wavy Moss that grew upon the walls let off a phosphorescent green glow. There were other more vivid colors here and there and then there were the fish. The fish were every color of the rainbow!

Koke closed his eyes and shook his head. It was time to wake up from this fantasy of a dream.

Something changed in the atmosphere of the room. Koke knew that he was no longer alone, even as words softly fell into his consciousness, "Your back does it still hurt you?"

Slowly Koke raised his head back up and his eyes opened to see the blonde vision of beauty that had kissed him moments before he had died. She was real?

She was a vision of stunning allure the likes of which he had never seen before in the world above. Her long blonde hair moved about in the water in a rhythm that echoed fantasy, even as her cobalt blue eyes stared at him out of a face that was gentled kindness itself.

Her skin was so white that the vivid color of the sash of cloth that swept around her chest and encased her hips was so bright that it glowed off of her as if it had the properties of a jewel set against a backdrop of pearl.

Either he was still dreaming or she was a real-life mermaid. A mermaid with legs. Beautiful legs.

Koke glanced up as the vision came closer. Her lips parted in a smile and he stared mesmerized by her as she drew closer and knelt down beside the odd spongy bed that he lay upon.