Gills

Yes! Sir Crow I love this...your calling back to the Mother of us all. Beautiful sweetheart...simply beautiful!
Lady Muse

Thank you, Lady Muse.  Ever hear Jimi Hendrix' "A Merman I Shall Turn to Be"?  Great words and even better guitar.  

Sir Crow, no I don't believe I have, when I was growing up it was the cool thing to like Hendrix and led zep but I couldn't stand either of them haha! Always the black sheep am I :P
But yours was perfect..
Lady Muse

I love the ocean and wish it were my home but I'd want to be a shark ha :) beautiful ink Sir Crow with love Crim

I'd have to watch out for your jaws, Lady Crim.  Thanks.

aw I'd be a vegetarian shark ;)

That's merciful.  Thanks, Lady Crim.  Your gentler side surfaces.

That's a beautiful image, Schiitaryn.  Thank you.

Sea tales are one of my fancies. A nice ink it is.

I found "Moby Dick" to be tough sailing, but I also love ocean adventures.  Kind of hard to find my sea legs, though.  Thanks, AlJoe.

there are terrors that lurk in the sea. you must be brave to wish to be among them!

nice ink, crow. well done.

You're right, Minerva.  There are countless unknown species way down in the deep.  Just waiting for an excuse...

Nothing quite beats being immersed in buoyant surf.  Depending on your subscription to environmental skepticism or not - we may soon have the choice taken out of our hands!

Gills sound like a sound evolutionary step, both emotionally and physiologically!

'whatever we lose, like a you or a me,
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.' Cummings...

Beautiful lines, John.  "And how do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mr. Death."  That's one of the few Cummings quotes I remember.  It's stuck with me since high school.  "Jesus, he was a handsome man..."

Return to the source. From there we cast off our extraneous parts. Just watch out for shogoths.