As a mermaid residing deep beneath the sea alongside others of your kind, a societal hierarchy existed with noble mermaids and mermen like yourself, as well as those belonging to lower classes.

While swimming one day your tail became ensnared by a heavy rock, rendering you immobile. A mermaid from a lower class swam up to you, noticing you, and as she said

"Here, let me help you? Okay? I mean no harm."