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Birth of Princess Rusalka La Mara
The ocean off the coast of California has always been the best for birthing sea creatures. It is warm and mostly calm during the summer months. Perhaps that is why Rusalka's mother, Vandella, chose it for the birth she gave to the siren. The whole process didn't take long once it started, at least not the placement of the birthing sack. As Rusalka was the product of a demoness and a monster of the sea the process was a bit different than a normal humanoid birthing. Much like the way a shark lays an egg casing known as a mermaid’s purse, so was Rusalka birthed. Her mother entered the ocean just off the sandy beaches of Anacapa Island, located within the waters of Southern California, and swam out into the ocean. There she went to the Equator wreck where she knew that the egg case would be safe. The labor took nearly five hours, but once the sack was ready, Vandella paced it and returned to the island. The gestation period was half a year long. During that time, both parents would visit the site where the egg case was located, checking that it was progressing as it should and in a way that was beneficial to the unborn child within.
The casing grew big and stayed strong as it formed the tiny child within. When it come to the time for Rusalka to break free, Vandella was there to help her along. Rusalka pushed through the sack, ripping it open with the barb on her siren’s tale, and then swam up to the surface. There she took her first breath and then gave a faint cry. Vandella cradled her child and made her she had enough to eat before she took her back to the shore and to a small cave where both she and Rusalka could rest. Rusalka grew up mostly in that cave, swimming in and out of it several times throughout her life. She didn’t see many people other than her mother and occasionally her father.
After her eighteenth birthday, she finally decided that she needed to be around others. Those of her family and the world around them. She stepped from the ocean near the cliffs where the castle of La Mara stood and walked along the shore with nothing more than her hair to cover her form.
(Subject to editing and revising as character develops)
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