
Meet Faerie Mermaid Galene. Her name sounds like "gull" (the bird) - "LEAN" (like when you're tilting to one side) - "knee" (a part on a leg, which most mermaids don't have).

Galene is a water faerie. That means she's part mermaid and part faerie. Her home is in the ocean, in a City Beneath the Sea called Coral Town. Her close friends are dolphins, manta rays, whales, and especially seahorses. Her very best friend is Salty Stuart the Pirate. He is also her husband, so that works out well.

But Galene loves the world above the deep blue ocean, too. Faerie Galene Meadowmoth loves a prairie next to a musical brook, a graceful weeping willow with branches like a flowing ballet dress. She loves the deep, green forest, and especially oaks with wide arm branches, and towering redwood trees, which are lovely for hugging.
Galene loves all the animals of the earth, and she speaks many animal languages. Galene talks to sea turtles and bright little shrimp, red as a tulip. She sings with meadowlarks and chitters with chickadees, and she's been known to swap jokes with a fox. She helps bluebirds clean house and mice find their way under the snow. She uses faerie magic to help flowers grow, so that butterflies and moths can thrive. Her favorite moth is the Luna.

Galene adores music, and she makes a lot of music herself. Rather splendid music, actually! Her favorite musicians are goldfish and pirates.
Because Mermaid Galene is part faerie, she has wings! But she's not very good at flying, though she is taking lessons from a crow. Galene's very shy about flying, and she won't do it if anyone's looking, so don't ask her!

Galene does have a little magic. It's Earth Magic. Unlike other mermaids, if Galene meditates quietly in one of the secret Places of Earth Magic, she can transform her tail into legs! But when she has legs, she can't stray too far from water, or she starts to feel woozy. In any case, she can only wear her legs for a short time. If she has them on for too long, Galene gets very tired and has to go sleep with her feet in a lake, at which point her legs turn back into a tail!

Either way, whether strolling on legs or flipping in a tail, Galene loves this big, blue planet of ours called Earth. It's such an interesting, beautiful place. Would you like to explore it with her? Oh, good! Because you're invited!
