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

greeted each other with a

the

to panic. I had been in worse

everyone shouting

manage hungry, irritable customers as a waitress, I

had to be careful. I had

really didn’t want to have to stand in the rain for a full

and I were directed into a line to wait our turn to meet the ambassador.

ambassador had mixed reactions. Some seemed pleased. Olivia and Linda seemed particularly confident. But most looked

the time it was my turn, I was a nervous ball of energy who felt a

instead of a servant to escort me to the ambassador, as had guided everyone else,

to escort you

a gift, being given his name. Whether Nathan had

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I said,

away that he was guiding me the

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

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