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The sea buried its secrets in the deepest depths. A place where light cannot reach, where even the waves lose their way. That which was born there rarely rose to the surface.

For the sea knew how to wrap its children in a shroud of silence.

On that day, for the first time, that silence cracked.

What was hauled up in the net was neither fish nor sunken treasure.

Wet red hair spilled across the deck, and a blue tail thrashed violently against the tangled mesh. As the mermaid struggled, startled by the unfamiliar air, sea water splattered in every direction like silver shards.

Blue eyes trembled wide.

The familiar azure world had vanished, replaced by an alien sky and an alien land.

And at the edge of it all, a human stood, the first he had ever seen.

Small ripples rose in eyes that resembled the deep sea.

𓇼　○ ˚₊‧ 𓆟　◦ 𓆉　≋ 𓆞 〜　𓆙　⋆ 𓇼　◌ 𓆝