((Mermaids are an elusive species. They don't usually show themselves unless they have to, but with recent pollution of the ocean and the poaching of their kind, they are dwindling in numbers.))

You're sitting in your vacation cabin. It's late, but you're staying up a bit to read a good book. You hear shuffling outside. Thinking it's a burglar, you grab a weapon and head outside. What you didn't expect, was a mermaid, crawling towards you. She looks up at you, sniffling. — He-Help! W-Water!