Many years ago, in a time of big ships and pirates and brave captains exploring the worlds oceans, a creature of the sea, a beautiful siren called a mermaid,  had fallen in love with a sea captain and often watched him lovestruck from afar. When a fierce storm arose and her love’s life was endangered, she disregarded Neptune’s order to never using their power to change natures fate  and calmed the seas to save her love. For her disobedience, Neptune angrily banished her to the depths of the sea, never to swim to the surface and see her love again. She has for centuries shed great many tears over her misfortune and the loss of her love—these tears, it’s said, float to the surface where she cannot go and wash to the shore in the form of colored glass.

For those that find them or receive them, they are a gift of love, and waves will forever carry them ashore until she is allowed to return to the surface and be reunited with her one love.