<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px">"Even for a demon born of the sea?" she asked more to herself than the woman opening her space to her and allowing her to have some privacy as well as allowing her to bath.  Still she hesitated but continued to look longingly at the calling water, it wasn't the ocean but water still allowed her to breath.   "Being watched isn't my concern, it wouldn't be new to me" she added shaking her head and nodding slightly to the woman, Abigail.  "Yeah, it's my preferred name but I also go by Phoenix" she added smiling at the woman as she guessed how she and Clay met.  "I don't trust him as far as I can throw him, but he promised to keep me hidden..." she added disrobing and stepping into the tub sinking under the water and relaxing into it.  "Will he keep his word though?" she asked when she'd surfaced her golden-teal tail flopping over the edge of the tub showing her full self to the stranger.<br/>
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She flinched at the words coming to from the older woman pulling her tail back into the water hiding and curling into herself turning her head towards the woman shaking her head.  "He knows I am part of the sea..." she answer wondering if she should get out and dry off, or hide...she'd rather stand naked than tied in a water where she couldn't swim away.  "He's better than most men I've met thus far in my life...that's not saying a lot" she spoke and conceded her lack of knowledge of human contact.  "That's what I fear, though if it is money he wants from me I can get him more  from the sea than any man on land could dream of offering. I just want to be somewhere where they don't fear the demon that I am" she muttered closing her eyes for a moment hugging what would have been her knees to her chest. "I've asked him that this journey he and I are taking just be us alone, I crave my freedom and solitude the most if I could have gotten away on my own I would have." she said opening her eyes and looking at the elder woman once more. "My mother use to say the same thing when she still lived," she said wistfully pulling the plug on the water letting it drain out slowly so she could start to dry off.  "Miss Abigail, will he keep his word to let me free once I get him what was promised?" Nix asked lifting herself slightly out of what was left of the tub's water and looking at the older woman. "I just need to know I can be free even after he finds out the full truth of me, can I trust that at least?" she asked, more so begged for the answer. Clay was her only hope to be allowed to walk freely around a home without the daggers of fear in eyes following her.</span></span>