[CENTER][b][color=007236][u][h1]The Huntsman[/h1][/u][/color][/b][/CENTER]

Azul Ashengrotto's initial comment about receiving royal customers confused the Huntsman. Ariel's revelation that she was the royal customer and a daughter of Triton left the Huntsman stunned. In the past, the Huntsman had read books of old myths to Snow White. Some of these myths concerned the merfolk, a race of ocean dwellers with the upper forms of humans and the lower forms of fish. If Ariel was one of them, then the Huntsman had found the hero from the depths mentioned in the Magic Mirror's rhymes. But that wasn't what loomed large in the Huntsman's mind. Instead, it was the realization that Ariel was royalty, and that all this time the way he'd been acting towards her had been completely unbefitting of someone of her status. This realization shocked him into complete silence as the scene continued around him.