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

other with a

to the more gullible

tried not to panic. I had been in worse situations. Heck, even lunch hour in the restaurant

overwhelming, with everyone shouting orders

hungry, irritable customers as a waitress,

to be careful. I had to

have to stand in

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

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

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

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

you to Ambassador

Nathan had said it when he announced the challenge,

+15 BONUS

you,” I said, accepting Mark’s

right away that he was guiding

mistake. Most people

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