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waterboy
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I shake me head. "I'm not a mermaid," I said, a bit annoyed. "I'm a Nereid, and 'mermaids' can't come out of the water. Well, a few can, but it isn't a very common skill and the ones who can do it are looked down upon by others. It's considered improper and impure. It was nice to meet you, human." And with that, she slipped back into the water and tore away. At the rate she was going, he'd have to move faster than even a machine would enable him to catch him, and that was after he got up and into the water at all. She didn't stop at the reef this time, but continued down and deeper into the water, til she was miles and miles away. She kept going until she was at the palace in the heart of Nereidna, where she spent the next few days pretending as if nothing had happened, not daring to go near the surface.
(let's skip a few days, and have them run into each other in the jungle)
(let's skip a few days, and have them run into each other in the jungle)