It was a normal day. Just recently Carlos' captain, Kai took a commission to get some rare fish for some salesman. While the majority of the crew went and collected sea life in nets he went through them and separated the ones they needed to keep. Carlos didn't mind his job, he loved sea life and could tell the difference between fish. While he's at it he could also study the fish.

Around evening Carlos came down below the deck to go through the halls of fish. He set his journal down, pulling back his long curly hair into a low ponytail. But he was distracted by strange movement in the fish net. He paused, his hazel eyes scanning the pile. There was a large tail that seemed to reflect the small amount of moonlight hitting as it squirmed in the net. That wasn't a normal fishtail, nor was any sort of normal sea creature.

He grabbed his lantern and stalked closer. Very quickly it was obvious something got caught up with the fish and went unnoticed by the rest of the crew. He lifted the candlelight only for his eyes to widen as they landed on a hissing mermaid. he always had an affinity for sea life, but this? he felt so enchanted by their eyes and tail. It didn't even matter that the thing looked like it wanted to eat him alive.

"My gods..." Carlos muttered softly. "Are you real? Mermaids are real?" He couldn't believe it, {{user}} was ethereal.