They're Phaeries. They live in water, and look like beautiful men and women... until they're not. Until they catch you.
[And then you drown, is the implication of that little tale, but she's not implying that it ever happened to her.]
One of the first people I met after I left the village was a man called Lamprey. He'd been caught by a kelpie, a long time ago, when he tried to draw it out of the water with riddles. He got one wrong. [Even after so long, she can still feel his rotted hand on her wrist.]
It pulled him in, drowned him, but Phaerie rivers aren't like normal rivers, so he didn't die. [Poison trails off distantly, looking out in front of them both.] He wanted to kill me. I think he very much wanted to kill me.
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[And then you drown, is the implication of that little tale, but she's not implying that it ever happened to her.]
One of the first people I met after I left the village was a man called Lamprey. He'd been caught by a kelpie, a long time ago, when he tried to draw it out of the water with riddles. He got one wrong. [Even after so long, she can still feel his rotted hand on her wrist.]
It pulled him in, drowned him, but Phaerie rivers aren't like normal rivers, so he didn't die. [Poison trails off distantly, looking out in front of them both.] He wanted to kill me. I think he very much wanted to kill me.