He keeps her hand tight in his and walks along with her as she decides. To his door, around the entire city, he would go wherever she wanted in that moment.

"Alright...Someday...someday I will show it to you again. In a better light." Maybe that would help as well, but for now it felt like a step too far.

"It was difficult to change at first -scary- I felt less like me when I was like that. Now...now I have more control, I know the instincts better and know myself. I can be myself more. You and I...we sometimes have a hard time getting the words out or getting them right, but singing as my siren doesn't muddy anything with my clumsy use of language. I can share my feelings and thoughts and wants with clarity. Sometimes too much clarity, but even that's...freeing." He sighs and looks out at the ocean, that longing song in the back of his mind a faint echo easily ignored these days.

"Between the wings for flight and the gills and fins for swimming...the whole thing feels like the freedom that had slowly been choked from me here. It's just...another facet now."