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