Yes! Haitu translates roughly to sea hare, which it turns out is a name for a type of sea slug which releases purple ink when threatened, some varieties of which can be really pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnaspideaMoon487 wrote:Feeling a lot more confident in my second guess with that hint! It’s to do with this line of text here:I think it’s referencing the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, “The Sea-Hare.” The story talks about a princess with a tower that had 12 windows, which essentially let her find stuff/people, and each window was stronger than the previous (ie the tracking spells). In the story, due to a challenge from the princess to evade her window’s ability to the point it was impossible to find him, a man ended up disguising himself as a sea-hare to get into her tower/room.Keep folklore has it that one researcher placed twelve tracking spells on her haitu, each more advanced than the last, in the hopes of figuring out where it disappeared to underwater, only for each spell to flicker out, one after the other, at which point the haitu reappeared in her room.
Link to the story here: https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_f ... e_sea-hare
Hence the bit in the description about them possibly transforming while underwater. I didn't even think about how it might sound like the selkie myth!
Anyway, well done! I'll send over your haitu as soon as it hatches
