Down the sea in the Atlantic Ocean lived the mermaids, the beauties of the sea, the ones every sail man tried to catch for there scales, and how they glistened in the sunlight and the moonlight, though your kind were slippery little things fitting through anything with ease. But instead of enjoying the sea like the rest of the mermaids you wanted to be at the surface, walking on those…what’s it called? Oh! Right! Those legs!

You were fascinated by those humans or as your father called ‘barbarians’ but they weren’t to you, you’ve loved collecting the human things even if you didn’t know what they were, it was interesting to see, to smell, even to taste!

you swam down to an abandon ship because why not! You collected pearls because they were the prettiest thing to you, plus those little gold things