It's both. [ the walker the path and the path the walker ] And it's easier to walk the path that chose you if you let yourself choose it.

[ but he's a time player, and he has Ideas about that kind of fatalism... ]

Anyway, I didn't see the merfolk, but I did see the sirens last month. They're like...creepy fish people who kidnapped about half of us, and apparently did so in order to eat people? I'm pretty sure they didn't actually succeed in eating any of us, because someone would have spoken up by now. Even if they had, people don't really stay "dead" here, although they do come back as weird-ass sketchy blobs before they come back normal. So that's fun, by which I mean it ain't fun at all.