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Lorelei smiled. "You ask too much of him, perhaps, Sorry," she said softly. Her voice was very sing-song, and it almost had the quality of an accent to it. "I have only recently come to your waters - German legends rarely interest people outside of Germany."

She turned her beatific smile onto Joshua. "I am the Lorelei, the harbinger of doom to ships caught in the rapids," she told him gently.

Lucian smiled and watched Joey leave. He stood and stretched and then dived into the water. The coolness felt good on his skin. He then swimmed alittle out and started to dig where the boat sunk, hoping to find things he would like. He piled a lot of can drinks into his pouch as well as food that wasn't damaged.

Rosalina smiled down at Joey. "The ocean's beautiful, isn't it?" she asked looking back out over the waves. The little waves that brushed against the rock caressed her bare feet and there was a light breeze toying with her dark curls.

((OOC: I should probably actually go look up the Lorelei again. I did once, but now I've forgotten most of it, and I probably can't BS my way through it. >.>))

Lorelei smiled. "Because a ghost doesn't need parents," she replied smoothly. "The legend of the Lorelei insists that as a human, I drowned myself over a faithless lover. I did not, for the record," she added. "They also claim that I became a siren, which I didn't. I just became...myself. The Lorelei."

She sighed. "I've earned a very bad reputation among humans. As they believe me a siren, they think I sing, as sirens do, to destroy the boats. I don't." Then she shook herself out of her reverie and laughed lightly. "But come, I am keeping you there while I talk about myself. Let me come down and join you." She stepped out of the cavern and gave an eerie impression of walking down the sheer cliff that lay between her and the water. She resettled herself on a rock tip just above the water. "Now, let me say - hello, Sorry." Then she looked at Joshua. "Who are you, and what do you wish to know?

Lorelei laughed a little. "The real story is a little shorter, and a lot more prosaic," she said, somewhat wistfully. "I almost wish I could tell you I killed myself over a lover. It's so...I don't know, tragically romantic. But no. It was merely a mistake."

She smiled wearily. "Not an accident, mind you - a mistake." Lorelei leaned forward and said earnestly to Joshua, "You must understand, she didn't mean to kill me when I was pushed. I was just at the wrong place on the cliff at the time. I know she was miserable for years afterwards."

Continuing with her story, she said, "I spent a while floating in the dark. I wasn't ready to go on, and couldn't go back. But eventually, I found a place." She shook her head with a little smile. "I was young, and I was lonely. If I had died on the ocean rocks, I knew others would as well. I did not want to be alone."

She shrugged. "So I awaited sailors, by the rapids, among the rocks. Eventually, I became linked inextricably with death - even if I wished not to be. Every time I was seen, the ship would crash upon the rocks. So..." she paused and sighed, "when I grew tired of seeing this, of watching the death agonies of men among the rocks, I left Germany. I came here, and I hope to find a way to live here in peace."

With a gesture that took in the rapids, she said, "But I have become a warning to all sailors, and I cannot survive away from the rapids. That is why I made this place my home."

She inspected Joshua's face, and laughed quietly. "Have I shocked you?" she asked gently. "Is there anything else you would like to know?"