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

I knew the Merfolk greeted each other with a deep bow, and

the more gullible

worse situations. Heck, even lunch hour in the

overwhelming, with everyone shouting orders and demanding

irritable customers as a waitress, I

had to be careful.

have to stand in the rain for

into a line to wait our turn to meet the ambassador. As the line

the ambassador had mixed reactions. Some seemed pleased. Olivia and Linda seemed

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

me to the ambassador, as had guided everyone else, Mark, Nicholas’s Beta, was the one who offered

me to escort you to

gift, being given his name. Whether Nathan had said it when

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you,” I said,

right away that he was

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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