The girls around me were freshening up their Merfolk language. Some were fluent. Others, less so.

Though most seemed to have a baseline knowledge.

My grasp of the Merfolk language was rusty, at least. I vaguely recalled some lessons during my days at

the Academy, but that felt like so long ago now.

I hadn’t had any need for Merfolk language or traditions in my day to day since leaving the Academy. I

didn’t really retain any of that knowledge.

I thought I might be able to recall some customs, though the bits of information I was hearing now and

then around me confused with my memories and left me unsure.

Also, I couldn’t trust what the girls around me were even saying.

Linda, especially, seemed to be purposefully polluting the water of fact and fiction. My knowledge was

each other with a deep

the

in worse situations. Heck, even

shouting orders

I could manage hungry, irritable customers as a waitress, I could

be careful. I had to try

stand in the rain for a full

were directed into a line to wait our turn to meet the ambassador. As the line grew shorter and shorter,

reactions. Some seemed pleased. Olivia and Linda

ball of energy who felt a bit like I was walking into

as had guided everyone else, Mark, Nicholas’s Beta, was the one who

me to escort you to

his name. Whether Nathan had said it when he

+15 BONUS

I said, accepting Mark’s

away that he was guiding me

time Prince Nicholas met a Merfolk he made a common mistake. Most people in the kingdom believe that Merfolk bow at the waist as

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