From the moment they entered the party and exchanged greetings with their host, Madam, Jioh had been able to tell that mermaids were crawling all over the place.
Every one of them was playing dumb and pretending otherwise, but did the likes of them really think they could fool the eyes of a Constellation?
‘Mermaids aren’t supposed to be this common a species.’
Weren’t they fairly rare?
She had heard they pursued a rather insular lifestyle, but apparently that wasn’t necessarily true.
Supposedly, they lived clustered together mainly around the Caribbean. When had they expanded their range all the way to the Mediterranean?
Not that it was any of her business, of course, but it was interesting.
Until now, the only mermaid she had ever seen was the half-blood Madame Lambert. And now there were mermaids of every age and variety wandering around?
‘This isn’t a shipboard party. It’s a mermaid expo.’
“And you have no intention of bestowing some of that human kindness upon the one pining away over here? Surely you’re not discriminating because I’m nonhuman. I’m wearing a human hide well enough myself.”
“What…