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

the Merfolk greeted each other with a deep bow, and not a fist bump like she

to the more

worse situations. Heck, even lunch hour in the

overwhelming, with everyone shouting orders and

hungry, irritable customers as a waitress, I could handle almost

had to be careful. I had to

to have to stand

to wait our turn to meet the ambassador. As the line grew shorter and shorter,

reactions. Some seemed pleased. Olivia

I was a nervous ball of

servant to escort me to the ambassador, as had guided everyone else, Mark, Nicholas’s Beta, was the

to escort you

Whether Nathan

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I said,

he was

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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