Madness string 21915

Random mermaid
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret...

From above the fireworks are so many tiny flashes, dwarfed by the flashes of the thunderstorm higher still.