Pieter readjusted his grip on the rope, ready to pull Uban away. He was as dopey as a sailor with his first barmaid. He was going on about giving her flowers and chocolate. Well, he certainly knew just how alluring a mermaid was now. " Do you sing? I'd give anything to hear your voice sing to me". The mermaid giggled, smiling coquettishly at the naive sailor. "I'll sing for you. But you need to get closer." 	


"That's enough of that," Pieter chuckled as he yanked on the rope, doubling Uban over as he was bodily dragged to shore. If the mermaid was upset that she lost her prey, she didn't show it. With a flip of her silky hair, she disappeared under the waves, leaving the night emptier than it had been. 

Standing over his apprentice, Pieter puffed on his pipe and asked, "Well? What do you think of mermaids?"