[center][color=00746b][h2][i]Aquarius[/i][/h2][/color][/center]
[center][h3][url=http://wallpaperbeta.com/wallpaper_3840x2160/underwater_city_jellyfish_dome_ruins_fantasy_ultra_3840x2160_hd-wallpaper-364430.jpg]Shellborn Kingdom[/url] - Guard Post - Jail--> City Outskirts[/h3][/center]
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[b]M..My name is Ariyah. When your men found me, I was in search for my friends. A dolphin was having trouble giving birth, and in weather like this I was scared that several things might’ve gone wrong.[/b]

The three mersoldiers were silent.

[b]Will…Will I be able to return home? I did nothing wrong to you or your men.[/b]

The captain was silent for a few seconds further that his men started to side-glance him curiously from beneath their helms. Several streams of bubbles left the gills about his ribs in a sigh.

[color=82ca9d]“Take them away,”[/color] he motioned with his hand in the direction of the sharks as one of his mersoldiers, though a little hesitantly, swam over to the guard sharks to grab them by their dorsal fins and swim with them out of the dungeon. [color=82ca9d]“Release her.”[/color]

The mersoldier’s head nearly snapped off his neck when he glanced at his captain in shock. The only indication of the expression was the merman’s parted lips in disbelief. The question was right at his lips, but he didn’t dare ask it. To question the captain’s command would have made him insubordinate, but why was he releasing the prisoner? She was a mermaid!

The remaining mersoldier took the coral key from about his neck and used it to unlock the cell. The metal door squealed as it was slid back and it met the wall with a resonating [i]thoom.[/i]

[color=82ca9d]“You are released. We will safely escort you out of the city,”[/color] the captain told her. [color=82ca9d]“Come.”[/color]

As the mermen departed, escorting the young mermaid over a city of gawking Shellborn men, they swam out to the city’s outskirts. The captain reached up to his neck where a necklace with a nautilus shell hung on a weed-like cord. He snapped it free from his neck and handed it to the mermaid.

[color=82ca9d]“As long as you wear this, no merman should bother you lest they are the enemies of the Shellborn. You should be safe in these waters. But mermaid…once you’ve left this place, it is wise for you not return,”[/color] he warned. He didn’t think that the mermaid was foolish enough to retaliate with others from her pod.