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

but even I knew the Merfolk greeted each other with a deep bow, and not a fist bump

the more gullible

I had been in worse situations. Heck,

everyone shouting

could manage hungry, irritable customers as a waitress,

be careful. I had to

have to stand in the rain for

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

mixed reactions. Some seemed pleased. Olivia

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

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

you to Ambassador Zale,” Mark

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

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I said, accepting

noticed right away that he was guiding me the

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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