It was always a breath of fresh water when Made got a chance to swim in the open water. His mother’s fragility made it impossible a lot of the time. But today she was doing better, which left him a free moment to take their pet seal, Kai, out for a swim.
He raced her through the Undersea Gorge, bright laughter ringing through the sea. Myde dove towards the seafloor to try to get her to chase him, but when he pulled back to a horizontal position, she’d gone out of sight. “No… no way…” A moment’s panic clutched at him- he knew he should have put a leash on her.
But when he rose back up through the water and turned around one of the many rock formations, there she was, circling happily around a mermaid with red hair and a green tail. “There you are, you scared me, Kai!” Myde swam up to his seal and put a hand on her sleek gray neck, drawing her back from where she was nosing and licking at the mermaid’s hand. “Sorry if she bothered you,” he told her, blushing. “She’s friendly. She just doesn’t have the best manners, y’know?”
He didn’t yet know he was talking to the youngest daughter of Triton.