No matter how much I argued, Conan just didn't listen. He insisted on accompanying me to see the sirens. Despite all my complaints, I was kind of glad for it.
While I'd never admit it aloud, the idea of visiting those women on my own freaked me out. Everything I'd learned about the sirens, which was sparse, had only served to build them into something bigger and more dangerous than they probably were.
I only had legends to go on, and mixed ones at that. So many fairy tales mixed up sirens and mermaids, making them out to be one creature when, in reality, they were quite different.
For one, sirens lived exclusively on land. Islands being their preference. In days long past, they used to populate several, but as humanity spread, the sirens' hunting grounds shrank. As creatures of Earth wh
