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00:02I taught a merman how to flirt, but he grounded me because he thought I was proposing.
00:06My professor did warn me, but by then, I'd already done something very stupid.
00:11How could I watch the strongest, most beautiful male on Emerald Atoll fail to find a mate?
00:16He could take down prey that weighed hundreds of pounds, but he'd never once shown up to
00:20a courtship dance.
00:22Poor thing grew up alone.
00:23No one ever taught him, so I played him courtship songs on a speaker, put on a prosthetic tail,
00:28and showed him the dance myself.
00:30He learned fast and performed it right back to me.
00:33Thrilled, I shot the whole thing and sent it to my professor, to brag.
00:37He called me back screaming.
00:39You idiot!
00:40Didn't you notice the razor-sharp teeth?
00:42The long claws?
00:43The powerful tail?
00:44That's not a merge.
00:46It's more like a siren out of mythology.
00:48It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
00:52The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down, dragging them
00:56somewhere no one will find them, and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
01:00Get out of there!
01:01Get out!
01:02Get out!
01:04But it was already too late.
01:06He was already swimming toward me.
01:12Two months earlier, a new male had arrived at Emerald Atoll, settling alone on the far
01:17side of the island.
01:18Merfolk live in family groups, but young males often leave the pod they grew up in to seek
01:22mates and join new colonies.
01:23It promotes genetic diversity, a smart evolutionary strategy.
01:27The merfolk were soft-featured, almost doll-like.
01:30This one was all edges, looked like a fallen angel.
01:33His teeth were pointed, his claws significantly longer than any shallow-water murs.
01:38Black hair, green eyes, a black gold tail roughly 8 feet long.
01:42This was clearly a powerful deep-sea mer who had left his pod and come to Emerald Atoll
01:46seeking a mate.
01:47I usually observed the merfolk through underwater cameras stationed around the island.
01:52But once, while boating near the atoll, I spotted him.
01:55I sent my drone after him and watched him cut through the waves, chasing down a marlin
02:00doing nearly 70 miles an hour.
02:01He caught it effortlessly, slicing the fish open with his claws.
02:05The blood drew sharks and orcas from the surrounding waters, but none of them dared approach him.
02:10Deep-sea mer were clearly the unchallenged apex predators of the ocean.
02:14When he drifted past my boat, I couldn't help staring.
02:17You're amazing!
02:18Of course, he couldn't understand me.
02:20After humans discovered this planet, there had been a brief surge of interest in merfolk
02:24research, but the excitement died down fast.
02:29Merfish intelligence was only slightly above orcas.
02:33They were omnivores, living mostly on kelp and seaweed, occasionally supplemented with
02:38crabs, oysters, and small fish.
02:40And there was zero chance of crossbreeding with humans.
02:44Most researchers moved on to studying beast folk.
02:47As for me, I'd originally studied beast folk, too.
02:51Isla, Isla, Isla!
02:54I have to attend a university conference and we'll probably be away for a week.
02:58Again?
02:59Yep.
03:00You're running out of time, Isla.
03:01Your graduate thesis deadline is fast approaching.
03:04But...
03:04You better have your topics settled by the time I get back.
03:06I believe you can do it.
03:08I'd been alone on Emerald Atoll for three months.
03:11If not for my cleaning drone and internet access, I'd have dropped out long ago.
03:16But after hearing me speak, the mer stopped.
03:19Those cold, piercing eyes locked onto me.
03:22A chill crawled up my spine, even though I was perfectly safe on the boat.
03:26He sliced off the choiceless cut from the marlin's back with one precise sweep of his
03:29claws and tossed it onto my deck.
03:31I'd just been fed by a mer.
03:33He was different from the others.
03:35He's smart and powerful.
03:37I could see my thesis writing itself.
03:38I might graduate early.
03:40If this mer could find a mate during mating season, he'd stay with the Emerald Atoll colony.
03:45By next spring, there could be two or three intelligent, powerful mer pups born, and I
03:50could study hybridization traits between different mer substitutions.
03:55I named the deep sea mer opal.
03:57His black gold tail shimmered like a black opal under moonlight, flashing with iridescent
04:01fire.
04:02Mating season lasted three months, but two months in, opal still hadn't found a mate.
04:07He hunted massive prey every day, often tossing the best cuts onto the dock, giving me a meal
04:12of fresh sashimi or pan-seared fish.
04:14He only ate the belly meat himself, discarding the rest.
04:17Before long, young males from the colony would slink over and drag away the leftovers to present
04:22to the females they were courting.
04:24He'd inadvertently helped several pairs get together.
04:26Merfolk were drawn to strength.
04:28A male who could bring down enormous prey easily won female attention.
04:32But this idiot fish had never once attended the underwater courtship dances.
04:36I consulted my professor, who said merfolk were social animals.
04:40Males typically left in groups of two or three brothers.
04:43A solitary mer had likely been separated by accident, or abandoned, forced to grow up alone.
04:48That would explain why this one was such an exceptional hunter.
04:51Without a family's protection, he'd had to become powerful to survive the ocean's dangers.
05:00It also meant he probably didn't know the courtship song or dance.
05:03Without performing the courtship ritual, none of the young females would even know he was available.
05:09Of course he didn't have a mate.
05:10Once mating season ended, Opal would leave Emerald Atoll with nothing to show for it.
05:15I could feel my thesis slipping away.
05:17I had to do something.
05:19It was just a song and a dance.
05:21I'd teach him myself.
05:23I pulled up recordings of merfolk courtship songs and waited at the dock.
05:27Opal arrived, dragging another massive tuna.
05:29The warm light softened his cold features.
05:32I knew he was dangerous.
05:33But merfolk had no recorded history of harming humans.
05:36I approached him slowly.
05:38Opal.
05:41Opal, that's the name I gave you.
05:43Merfolk could only produce simple tones.
05:46They had a basic language, but communicated through ultrasound.
05:50Their vocal anatomy didn't support complex human speech.
05:53Neither did their intelligence, for that matter.
05:55He opened his mouth.
05:57Opal.
05:57Clear, precise, perfectly pronounced.
06:00He could speak.
06:01Research on deep sea mer was scarce.
06:04Perhaps some subspecies had this ability.
06:06My thesis was going to shake the entire field.
06:09Opal.
06:10I pointed at him, then pointed at myself.
06:13Isla.
06:14He immediately understood that Opal referred to him.
06:16Opal.
06:17And Isla, to me, remarkably intelligent.
06:20I turned on the speaker I'd prepared.
06:23I'm going to teach you the courtship song.
06:25Once you learn it, you sing it for whichever mate you choose.
06:27He seemed confused, but I knew he wouldn't hurt me.
06:31Soon, the lilting melody of a merfolk courtship song floated from the speaker.
06:35I had to admit, merfolk singing was beautiful.
06:38The next instant, Opal's expression changed.
06:40He drove his claws through the speaker in one violent strike,
06:44shredding it until the song went silent.
06:47I jumped back in terror and ran.
06:50Those claws would crack my skull just as easily.
06:52He saw me fleeing and lunged.
06:54I glanced back mid-sprint, and saw he'd hauled himself onto the shore,
06:58floundering forward, trying to chase me.
07:00But on land, he was slow, nowhere near fast enough.
07:04Isla. Isla.
07:05His voice was plaintive, almost begging.
07:07No wonder, Nick, said merfolk lured humans to their death.
07:11That's exactly what he sounded like now.
07:13Luring me back so he could eat me.
07:15The next day, I found a grouper on the dock,
07:18alongside a speaker that had been painstakingly pieced back together.
07:22Opal hovered 100 meters out, neither approaching nor leaving, just watching me.
07:27I might have overreacted yesterday.
07:30Research consistently showed merfolk were among the friendliest species known.
07:34He'd probably just been startled that the speaker could produce mersong.
07:37I waved him over.
07:38He drifted 10 meters closer, waited,
07:41and when I didn't run, cautiously closed another 10 meters.
07:45Several minutes passed before he was just a few meters away.
07:47You don't like the speaker?
07:49What if I teach you myself?
07:54Could he actually understand human speech?
07:56I'd been listening to the colony's courtship songs through underwater equipment for weeks.
08:00I knew them by heart.
08:02I sang the first line, ready to sprint,
08:04the instant his claws came from my head the way they'd come for the speaker.
08:07When Opal heard me sing, his eyes lit up, he repeated the line back.
08:11I sang the full courtship song, and he echoed it perfectly.
08:13I'd expected to need a dozen repetitions,
08:16but he reproduced the entire song flawlessly on the first try.
08:19His eyes never left me.
08:20He didn't even blink.
08:21It made me uneasy.
08:22Opal, you're incredibly smart.
08:24When you meet a merm you fancy someday,
08:26you may sing this tune for her.
08:29Consider it tuition.
08:30That night, deep in sleep, I was jolted awake by a familiar melody.
08:33Furious, I threw open the window and locked eyes with Opal.
08:38Shut up!
08:38I snapped at him.
08:39The singing stopped.
08:40I finally got a good night's sleep.
08:43But days later, Opal still hadn't found a mate despite knowing the courtship song.
08:47Was I really going to have to teach him the dance too?
08:51I was a strong swimmer and certified diver.
08:54When I was a child, trips to Thalassa were all the rage.
08:57My parents brought me here on vacation.
08:59After visiting the shallow water Merfolk,
09:01the next day we boarded a cruise ship to search for deep sea mer.
09:04But the waves were particularly rough that day, and I fell overboard.
09:09Over ten days later, my parents found me unconscious on the shore, burning with fever.
09:14The fever wiped my memory of that entire period.
09:16The assumption was that a shallow water Merfolk pod had rescued me.
09:19After that ordeal, once we returned to our home world,
09:22my parents enrolled me in swimming and diving lessons.
09:24I never imagined that years later I'd end up back on Thalassa,
09:27and that those skills would actually prove useful.
09:29When you see a female you like, have you tried singing the courtship song for her?
09:33He nodded.
09:33I was furious.
09:34He'd already sung the courtship song and still got rejected.
09:37These females had no taste.
09:39Opal was the most stunning Mer on Emerald Atoll.
09:41Do you know the courtship dance?
09:44He shook his head.
09:45Fine, for the sake of my thesis, I'd go all in.
09:48I turned, walked into the room, slipped on the silver imitation fishtail,
09:52and then dove into the sea.
09:54I mimicked the courtship dance movements, twirling through the sea.
09:57Opal's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
09:59Unblinking, fixed on every movement.
10:01Like.
10:01That was the first word he'd said to me besides my name.
10:04Idiot.
10:04If he liked it, then he'd better learn it.
10:06I was counting on those merpups next year.
10:08When the dance ended, he retracted his claws.
10:10Opal pulled me into a full embrace,
10:12carefully circling my waist, resting his head on my shoulder,
10:16his tail pressing close against mine.
10:19Like Isla.
10:20Compared to my clumsy, slightly ridiculous imitation of a merdance,
10:24Opal's was effortless and powerful, devastatingly beautiful.
10:26He sang something similar to the merfolk courtship song,
10:29but more ethereal, more haunting.
10:31Those impossible eyes held nothing but my reflection the entire time.
10:35Like a sailor bewitched by a siren,
10:36I found myself swimming toward him, wanting to dance with him.
10:39The moment my hand touched his, I snapped out of it.
10:42Dancing with a fish, I'd lost my mind.
10:44I turned and swam hard for shore.
10:45Behind me, Opal slowly lowered his hand, watching me leave in silence.
10:55I'd barely peeled off the wet tail when my professor called,
10:58and his furious voice erupted from my comm device.
11:01You idiot!
11:02You told me you found a deep sea merd.
11:04Didn't you notice the razor sharp teeth?
11:05The long claws?
11:07The powerful tail?
11:08That's not a merd.
11:09It's more like a siren out of mythology.
11:11It could slice you open and rip your heart out without breaking a sweat.
11:15The only way a creature like that courts a mate is by hunting them down,
11:19dragging them somewhere no one will find them,
11:21and keeping them there until they're pregnant.
11:24Get out of there!
11:25Get out!
11:26Get out!
11:27So my gut had been right all along.
11:29I'd always known Opal looked different from the merd.
11:31He wasn't a deep sea merd at all.
11:33He was a new species.
11:34An extremely dangerous new species.
11:36Which meant the Emerald Atoll Research Station,
11:39with zero physical barriers, was a death trap.
11:42Until my professor secured funding and the station was reinforced,
11:45I had to leave immediately.
11:47I grabbed the essentials and launched my yacht.
11:49As the island shrank behind me, I let myself breathe.
11:53I hadn't said goodbye.
11:54That thought sat heavy in my chest.
11:56Whatever he was, he'd never actually hurt me.
12:00My professor called to make sure I'd gotten out.
12:03I'm well clear of the atroy!
12:04Thank God.
12:05I thought the worst you'd cost me was my academic reputation.
12:08I didn't expect I'd nearly have to attend your funeral.
12:11But I had no appetite for his jokes.
12:13My voice was shaking.
12:15It's here.
12:18Opal's black hair billows in the wind,
12:20his sleek tail cutting through the water like an arrow.
12:23He caught up in seconds.
12:24His expression was colder than anything I'd ever seen.
12:27I told myself it was fine.
12:28The hull was metal.
12:29I was safe.
12:31Then five pointed claws punched through the cabin wall.
12:34The metal tore apart like paper.
12:35I fell backward.
12:37The clumsiness on the dock had been an act.
12:39The moment he boarded,
12:41his tail split slowly into two human legs.
12:43He walked toward me step by step,
12:45like something out of a nightmare.
12:46Don't run.
12:47All that friendliness had been an act.
12:49From the day he appeared,
12:50he could have slaughtered me and the entire colony
12:53any time he wanted.
12:54But he hadn't.
12:56Had it all been a game to him?
12:57The moment his prey tried to run,
12:59the mask came off.
13:00Don't leave.
13:02My isla.
13:03And then his lips pressed against mine.
13:05He was kissing me.
13:06Why?
13:07He pushed a smooth, hard pearl from his mouth into mine,
13:10his tongue forcing it to the back of my throat
13:12until I swallowed.
13:14Only then did he pull back,
13:15a satisfied smile spreading across his face.
13:17You can't escape now,
13:20my mate.
13:23The instant I swallowed the pearl,
13:25everything went black.
13:26Opal took me like prey.
13:28His tail reformed,
13:29and he held me against his chest
13:31as he shot through the ocean,
13:32heading somewhere unknown.
13:33My comm device lay abandoned on the deck,
13:35my professor's voice still coming through.
13:37What do you mean it's here?
13:39Isla, talk to me.
13:40A long silence.
13:41Then a sigh,
13:42and the sound of another call glowing out.
13:44Hello, is this planetary security?
13:46I woke up in iron shackles.
13:48I was inside a cave on some island.
13:50The only exit was submerged.
13:51Even if I could somehow dive through it,
13:53I'd face nothing but open ocean on the other side.
13:56A few meters away,
13:57he was slicing a massive fish
13:59into fillets with a poker face.
14:01Blood ran into the water.
14:02The metallic smell was everywhere.
14:04It looked like a scene from a slasher film.
14:06Was I next?
14:08He looked up.
14:09That cold expression
14:10was even more terrifying than before.
14:13Liar!
14:14You can't escape.
14:15Before,
14:16he'd only ever said a word or two at a time.
14:18Now he was speaking in full sentences.
14:20Fluent,
14:20precise,
14:21like he'd know how to talk all along
14:23and had simply chosen not to.
14:25An animal would just kill you.
14:26But something intelligent enough
14:28to take hostages
14:29was something you could reason with.
14:30What exactly did I lie about?
14:32His expression grew angrier.
14:34You courted me first.
14:36Me?
14:37I accepted,
14:38and you ran.
14:39You always lie to me.
14:41I'd sung the courtship song to him.
14:44Danced the courtship dance.
14:45From his perspective,
14:47I'd been proposing,
14:47and he had accepted.
14:50I softened my voice.
14:53This was all a misunderstanding.
14:55I'm a merfish researcher.
14:56I thought you were a male mer
14:58who'd come to join the Emerald Ator colony
15:00but didn't know how to court.
15:02I was teaching you.
15:03His fist slammed into the cave wall,
15:05punching out a chunk of solid rock.
15:07I didn't want to imagine
15:08what would happen
15:09if that had been my skull.
15:10I should never have accepted
15:12that reassignment.
15:13Shut up.
15:16You wanted me to court
15:17those stupid weak merfish.
15:18It took a long time
15:19for the rage to subside
15:20before he spoke again.
15:21His voice was calm,
15:22but with something unhinged underneath.
15:24It doesn't matter.
15:25Only stupid merfish court that way.
15:28My inherited instinct tells me
15:30this is how we do it.
15:31We take our mate
15:32and hide them away.
15:35Everything my professor said
15:36had been true.
15:37Why couldn't he have told me sooner?
15:39He pushed the raw fillets toward me.
15:42Eat.
15:42I was about to refuse,
15:43when hunger slammed into me
15:45like a wall.
15:46I wanted that fish
15:47more than I'd ever wanted
15:48anything in my life.
15:49I devoured every last piece.
15:51He watched with a look of satisfaction,
15:54entirely unsurprised,
15:55as if he had known
15:56this would happen.
15:57After eating,
15:58an overwhelming drowsiness hit.
16:00I slept again.
16:02When I woke,
16:02he was slicing fish.
16:03I ate again.
16:05Days passed before the hunger
16:07and exhaustion finally faded.
16:09I demanded answers.
16:10What did you do to me?
16:11He took my hand
16:12and guided my fingers
16:13behind my ears.
16:14On each side,
16:15I felt openings,
16:16developing gills.
16:18My skin had changed too,
16:19smoother and slicker,
16:20like it was no longer
16:21meant for land.
16:22I could probably stay underwater
16:24for hours now.
16:25The pearl.
16:27Am I going to turn
16:28into a creature like you?
16:31Yes.
16:33You'll become a siren like me.
16:36You'll never go back
16:37to the human world.
16:38I was going to turn
16:38into one of them,
16:39never see my family again,
16:41trapped with this monster
16:42for the rest of my life.
16:43Monster,
16:44even if I'm not human anymore,
16:46I'll never be with you.
16:47I hate you.
16:49I'd rather spend my life
16:50with a pot of murphine.
16:52His jaw clenched,
16:53eyes went bright with fury.
16:55But underneath it,
16:56just for a second,
16:57I saw something great.
16:58Then I'll keep you
16:59chained here forever.
17:00You won't see another human.
17:02You won't even see a mur.
17:04From that day on,
17:05my body kept changing,
17:06more and more like a fish.
17:08The openings behind my ears
17:09grew from two to six
17:10within two weeks.
17:12I didn't say
17:12a single word to him.
17:14The chains were long enough
17:15that I could reach
17:16the cave entrance.
17:17I'd tried submerging my head,
17:18and I could last hours now
17:20before I heard him coming back.
17:21If I could just get
17:22the shackles off,
17:23I could escape.
17:24Today he returned,
17:25dragging only a small grouper.
17:26But his black gold tail
17:27bore a long gash.
17:28Iridescent scales fell away
17:30with every movement.
17:31He was injured.
17:32He didn't even have the strength
17:33to shift into legs.
17:37He just lay down
17:38and closed his eyes.
17:39I walked over
17:40and checked his breathing.
17:44Too bad I didn't die.
17:46You must be so disappointed.
17:48Obviously.
17:49I wish you'd drop dead.
17:51What happened to you?
17:52A pot of orcas.
17:55About thirty of them.
17:57Tried to take my territory.
17:59I won, of course.
18:01Just a scratch.
18:04Orcas.
18:05The oceans roaming fast.
18:07Thirty of them.
18:08And he won.
18:08I died a little inside.
18:10I truly provoked
18:12something terrifying.
18:13I kicked the grouper
18:14he brought into the water.
18:15I don't want grouper.
18:17I want salmon.
18:20Tomorrow?
18:20I want it today,
18:22you useless fish
18:22who can't even land a mate.
18:24Either let me go
18:25or go catch some right now.
18:29Tomorrow?
18:29I want it today,
18:31you useless fish
18:31who can't even land a mate.
18:33Either let me go
18:34or go catch some right now.
18:35He hauled himself up
18:36and swam back out
18:37through the entrance.
18:39After a long while,
18:40he returned with several salmon.
18:41The wound on his tail
18:42had turned white
18:43and waterlogged from the salt.
18:44Actually,
18:45I don't want salmon anymore.
18:46Too rich.
18:47I want something lighter.
18:49Sea bream.
18:50He dragged himself back out
18:51to catch sea bream.
18:52He brought the bream back.
18:54Before I could say another word,
18:56he collapsed.
18:57With his eyes closed,
18:58he looked completely harmless.
19:00The wound had gone raw
19:01from the seawater.
19:03I cleaned it.
19:04I sat beside him
19:05and closed my own eyes.
19:07I should hate him.
19:10I was floating in the ocean,
19:12but I knew I was dreaming.
19:13I turned back into a child.
19:14I saw another child about my age.
19:16Was I dreaming?
19:17I reached out to him.
19:19Please, help me.
19:21He swam toward me
19:22and I saw that his lower half
19:23was a slender tail,
19:24a mare.
19:25He rescued me,
19:26set me on a reef
19:26and caught food for me.
19:28A good myrrh.
19:28I wanted him to take me
19:29somewhere with people.
19:30I want to go home.
19:31My parents would be worried.
19:33But he couldn't understand me,
19:34so I taught him to speak,
19:35word by word.
19:37He was smart.
19:38In just over 10 days,
19:39we could communicate.
19:40I learned he wasn't a mer.
19:42He was a siren.
19:43Sirens were solitary,
19:44the unchallenged apex predators
19:46of the deep.
19:47Sirens never raised their young.
19:48From the moment a hatchling
19:49broke free of its egg,
19:50it faced the dangerous ocean alone.
19:52Only those who survived
19:53earned the name siren.
19:55I was very innocent as a child,
19:56innocent in that way
19:57only children can be,
19:59the kind that cuts.
20:00So you don't have family
20:01or friends?
20:02You've always been alone?
20:04Not even a fish friend?
20:06Don't you get lonely?
20:09What's lonely?
20:11Lonely is when there's
20:12no one to play with you,
20:14no one to talk to,
20:15no one who misses you.
20:17I didn't know
20:17what lonely was before,
20:19so I wasn't lonely.
20:23Now I will be.
20:24I'm sorry.
20:26After I go home,
20:27I'll come back every summer
20:28to play with you.
20:29I'll talk to you.
20:30And I'll miss you.
20:31Let's make a pinky promise.
20:33I swear.
20:34He copied my gesture solemnly,
20:36extending his little finger,
20:37careful not to nick me
20:38with his sharp eyes,
20:39and hooked it around mine.
20:40Cross your heart.
20:41We're best friends.
20:43I'll never forget you.
20:44Best friends.
20:45I'd planned to stay
20:46a few more days
20:47before having him
20:48take me home,
20:48but the sea wind
20:49and the monotonous diet
20:50made me sick.
20:51A fever set in,
20:52everything blurred.
20:54His face went white.
20:55It's my fault.
20:56You don't belong in the sea.
20:58I'll take you somewhere
20:59with humans.
20:59They'll help you.
21:00He carried me
21:01on his thin back,
21:02racing through the ocean,
21:03trying to keep the waves
21:04from soaking my hair.
21:07When I'm better,
21:08I'll come back for you.
21:11Isla,
21:12I'll wait.
21:13He slipped back
21:14into the water,
21:15and only after people
21:16found me and carried me away
21:17did that small shape
21:18in the distance
21:19finally disappear.
21:21But I never kept
21:22my promise.
21:22I forgot all of it.
21:26If I hadn't been reassigned
21:27to my professor years later,
21:29I might never have returned
21:30to Thalassa in my life.
21:32And Opal had come
21:33to Emerald Atoll
21:34not for the merfolk.
21:35For me.
21:36And what had I done?
21:37I'd made him think
21:38I was courting him.
21:39He accepted.
21:41I ran.
21:42He thought I'd
21:43betrayed him twice.
21:44In his fury,
21:45he took me.
21:48Liar.
21:49I hated you.
21:51You are a monster.
21:52I'd never be with you.
21:54Sirens heal
21:54with terrifying speed.
21:55Within hours,
21:56the vicious wound
21:57had closed.
21:58Opal opened his eyes
21:59and saw me still
22:00obediently shackled.
22:01Only then
22:01did he relax.
22:02Opal,
22:03you're awake.
22:04Does anything still hurt?
22:05Even if you've changed
22:06tactics and you're trying
22:07to soft me up,
22:08I won't let you go.
22:10Opal,
22:10you're awake.
22:12Does anything still hurt?
22:13Even if you've changed
22:14tactics and you're trying
22:15to soft me up,
22:15I won't let you go.
22:16I'd forgotten our promise.
22:19Everything on Emerald Atoll
22:20had been a misunderstanding.
22:22Liar.
22:23Don't think saying that
22:24will make me release you.
22:25My goal now
22:26wasn't escape.
22:27It was to comfort
22:27this poor fish
22:28who'd been let down
22:29for over a decade.
22:30I don't want to leave anymore.
22:31I'll stay here with you.
22:34Then you'll be my mate.
22:37Soon,
22:37here,
22:38we'll be growing an egg.
22:40Didn't you want to study
22:40my offspring?
22:42Isla,
22:42why not carry them yourself?
22:44I'm a human,
22:45you know.
22:46You swallowed my pearl.
22:47Your body has already
22:49been altered
22:49to carry Siren Young.
22:52Honestly,
22:53I wasn't entirely
22:54opposed to him.
22:55Interspecies marriage laws
22:56between beast folk
22:57and humans
22:57had already passed.
22:59Plenty of humans
22:59were into it,
23:00but carrying an egg
23:01was beyond anything
23:01I'd mentally prepared for.
23:03Can we just date first?
23:05A purely platonic relationship?
23:08I explained what
23:08platonic meant.
23:09He got angrier.
23:12You're lying again.
23:13I'll never believe you.
23:14But when I asked him
23:15to unlock the chains
23:16so I could swim,
23:17he agreed.
23:18Just as I thought.
23:19All bark,
23:20no bite.
23:21But impossible to convince.
23:23While Opal was out hunting,
23:24I dove into the water
23:26at the cave entrance
23:26and discovered
23:27small bioluminescent fish.
23:29I caught a few
23:30and snacked them.
23:31When I surfaced,
23:32my body was burning.
23:34Especially there.
23:35I tried to deal with it
23:36for a long time,
23:37but the relief wouldn't come.
23:38Opal returned
23:39and saw the remaining
23:40bioluminescent fish.
23:43Merfish eat those
23:44during mating.
23:45You ate them?
23:46How was there something
23:46like that just swimming around?
23:48Humans really had studied
23:49this planet nowhere near enough.
23:50It kept getting worse.
23:51My face was burning.
23:53And not just from the effect.
23:54I couldn't believe
23:55I was about to say this.
23:56I reached out to Opal.
23:58Can you...
23:59help me, Opal, please?
24:02He just stood there,
24:03looking like a kicked puppy
24:04despite being a creature
24:05that could kill 30 orcas.
24:07You always do this.
24:08You asked me first,
24:09then you took it back.
24:11Every single time.
24:12I pulled him closer
24:13by the wrist.
24:14I like you.
24:14I want you.
24:16Now, you really have to help me.
24:18I need you.
24:19He didn't move.
24:20His eyes were fixed on me,
24:22wounded and wary.
24:23You're begging me now,
24:24but tomorrow you'll hate me again.
24:26I don't believe you.
24:27Those green eyes looked so lost,
24:29like he was already bracing
24:30for me to disappear.
24:31So I kissed him first.
24:32He froze.
24:33Then his arms came around me
24:35so tight I thought
24:36my ribs would crack.
24:37He was gentle at first,
24:39trembling even.
24:40Like he was afraid I'd break.
24:42Then not.
24:43By the end I was breathless,
24:44clinging to him,
24:45telling him that was enough.
24:47I couldn't take any more.
24:48He didn't stop
24:49until my body gave out completely.
24:52Next morning, clear-headed,
24:54I processed the fact
24:55that I'd slept with a fish.
24:56It had actually felt pretty good.
24:58I might genuinely
24:58be in love with Opal.
25:00When Opal saw me awake,
25:01he handed me a knife
25:02made from shell.
25:03You hate me even more now,
25:04don't you?
25:05I forced you last night.
25:07I'd been on the bottom,
25:07but I knew full well
25:09who'd been forcing whom.
25:10You must despise me.
25:11I've unlocked your chains.
25:13You can use this knife
25:14to fierce my heart,
25:14then leave this place forever.
25:16Go back to the human world.
25:18And then what?
25:18He'd dissolve into sea foam?
25:20He was pure-hearted
25:21and soft underneath it all,
25:22playing at being a captor
25:23when he didn't have
25:24the constitution for it.
25:25I really like you.
25:27If you don't believe me,
25:28let's do it again.
25:30So we did,
25:31many, many times,
25:32in the cave
25:32at the bottom of the sea.
25:34But he still didn't believe me.
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