Kissed by a Mermaid

Cold water stings your eyes as the dark water surrounds you; deeper and deeper and deeper you go, till the light of the surface is a mere memory. Suddenly the water around you stirs and a pair of twin lamps appears in the abyss, orange and luminous. They drift ever closer as your vision blurs, the last vestiges of your consciousness circling the drain of eternity... And then soft flesh meets your lips, oxygen and the sweet aftertaste of lingonberries flooding in.