Editing Psamanthe (section)

==Background==

About twenty years ago, Nereus, the god of the sea, fell in love (well, lust) with the beautiful daughter of a fisherman (Nereus is well known to have a roving eye) and he fathered a daughter upon her (Nereus is well known to have fathered many children with mortels), a daughter the fisherman's daughter named Psamanthe. She also refused to marry anybody after this, for Nereus is also well to be a lover beyond compare of any mortal man and, after the death of her father, she ended up struggling to raise her daughter alone. Psamanthe loved her mother and, despite the fact that she felt the call of the sea, she stayed by her side. That ended when a pestilence passed through the area, killing her mother (who was worn out by hard work). After that, at the age of nine, Psamanthe ran away to sea, cutting her hair short and wearing the clothes of a boy. From then on until recently she lived as a sailor, never suspected of being a woman, especially when she grew to be seven feet tall and far stronger than most men. Very recently, after an injury caused by pirates trying to board her ship, the ship's surgeon (and the rest of the crew) discovered her true gender and she was forced ashore.