[center][color=00746b][h2][i]Aquarius[/i][/h2][/color][/center]
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The captain had watched the young mermaid offer her kind words before she went scurrying off into the blue. Sergeant Flotsam stared at his commander questionably before curiosity soon filled him to bursting.

“Sir, forgive me for I do not mean any disrespect, but I must know why you released the mermaid,” he asked.

“We are guardians of our kingdom. What do we have to fear from a mere mermaid?”

“But she was a sea witch!”

“She meant us no harm, and it was I who asked for her capture. It’s only right that I be the one to let her go. I gave her my necklace and if she finds our enemies, then we will know.”

The sergeant was impressed. “You’re using her as a decoy and she doesn’t even know it.”

“Precisely.”

“Ingenious.”

“Come; we return.”

The two mermen started swimming back to the city while Aquarius reflected on his encounter. That had been the first time Aquarius had actually spoken to a mermaid, and he had had her captured so that he could meet one instead of the creature running away in fear as they had done in his past. Ariyah had been beautiful to him, and it frightened him a little for she was nearly human. The Shellborn had been purging the sea of human men, but rarely did they have encounters with women for women rarely frequented the sea. Most human women had already been converted to mermaids and the mermaids tended to stick to their own rather than wage wars with the mermen. Aquarius had given her his necklace as a memento for he wasn’t sure if he would ever see her again, but when he did, he hoped to be able to recognize her by his necklace if she chose to wear it.