Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 53
Geraldus could see Marina still had jealously in her eyes. It seemed she wasn’t listening to his words. Either she heard his advice and couldn’t seem to get over the fact that her husband is spending time with another girl or Marina wasn’t listening at all. Geraldus understood his advice couldn’t fit into the Siren’s brain. “Can’t seem to get past the idea of Valverno with another girl?”
Marina then flared anger in her eyes. “I don’t want him with another girl, and I don’t like her. For some reason, I can’t just hate her for being with him. Valve... no… Vaeludar is spending time with a sister, but she isn’t any sister I know.”
“You’ve known my twin daughters longer than you have known this girl: Sora. And she seems to know more about the old world than any of us. She even replaced small fragments of his old memory, and she is friendly to the hybrid. Who are you to judge certain character of family virtue?”
Marina had her anger faded and a sudden sadness sparked on her eyes. “It was a long time ago. When… when my mother was killed. She was drawn to these people. Those monsters. They killed her. They tore her apart in front of me. She died horrifyingly. My only family was killed in front of me, and they tried to do to the same thing to me.
“However, love struck me when Vaeludar killed them before they killed me, and he fell in love with me when our eyes were drawn to each other for the first time. I was drawn to a stranger I just met.”
“I can see why you don’t want him being taken away,” said Geraldus. “Still, those men killing your mother were greedy men; men who sell themselves to do dirty work other men or women wouldn’t do. They all hunted Sirens down to total extinction, with you being the last of the Sirens. You’re the only hope to regrow the population the Sirens, and you don’t even need a male person to do the reproduction of the young.”
“But I do want to it, with Vaeludar.”
Geraldus blinked. He looked at Valverno, who is still being called Vaeludar by Marina, and looked back at Marina. “He is a hybrid. Half man half dragon. You can’t expect him to do it with you.”
“He is still a man by age.”
“He lacks the proper instruments to help with reproduction in the giving of new life. I know because I raised him myself. His body doesn’t have any of the tools to help you with giving new life. Even if he was full human and he would be able to help you, you would have to think of what your child would look like: a hybrid. Half human half Siren. I don’t know how that would work out.”
Marina looked at Geraldus with a smile. “The power of evolution always finds a way around the impossible. That girl is right about one thing: Sirens evolved from fish with looks of a human infant ten thousand years ago, and look where I am now.
“I will find a way to bypass with Vaeludar’s evolution and have him help me bear our children, no matter if they become hybrids like him. After all, he is the son of a god. He could have the right properties to help me give new lifeforms.”
“I’ll be staying silent from this science of biology and say no more. Good luck on your research, because you’re going have to be on your own. I cannot help with the science behind a hybrid body.”
“Oh, I will find the science behind his hybrid body, and I bare his children,” said Marina, determined to get Valverno’s attention. Then she saw Valverno letting his sister walk ahead of them.
Valverno stopped and walked backward and took sides with Marina, his new wife. Valverno saw Marina looked surprised by his change of direction from one girl to another. “What?” he asked. “I was talking with Sora and seeing how we both have been sleeping in different hibernation forms for over ten thousand years, and I’ve been telling her everything the about the modern age. It is apparently she forgotten knew a new age as began.”
“A new age?” asked Marina.
“The Prosperous Age, the Second Generation of the Living Life,” said Valverno. “The Second Generation before this Generation: the Present Age. We all know of the first Generation: the Colossal Age, where the Titans (the first children of the gods) had ruled.”
“You mean you go back fifty thousand years ago?”
“No, it was about eleven thousand years ago Sora and I go back. We were born in the final years of the Prosperous Age, the Generation where we both lived in a land called Pangaea.
“Pangaea was one a land that is both Isle Maeli and Shimabellia were made and formed from. During the final stages of life changing of events, earthquakes were starting to shatter and shake the giant mass of land into two different masses of lands. The capital cities had been buried underground and the rest have been buried into the sea. The inhabitants also were caught in the crossfire and they all either died in the natural disasters.
“This string of events happened before I turned into an embryo. All after the formations of Shimabellia and Isla Maeli and before the four White Knights and I were supposed to go into hibernation.”
“So, after your home country was destroyed,” said Marina, “how did you manage to survive? Did you eat my early ancestor still swimming in the waters?”
Valverno looked at Sora who was looking back at him with a small before turning her head forward. “No, we did