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A creature, half man half fish, with scales the color of sunset, tears at the ropes- bearing its teeth and hissing. It thrashes frantically, and Charlie almost feels bad.
Instead, Charlie’s stunned, watching the creature’s shifting scales and flowing fins spill across the deck.
He almost- He could’ve just-
“What is that?” He whispers, doubting he’s even heard over the ruckus, but Schlatt gives him a yellow toothed grin.
“We’ve done caught ourselves a merman.”
Or; Charlie, freshly 21 and new to life on the sea, accidentally joins a pirate crew intent on hunting down a mythical object unheard of to man. Courting a merman and getting mermaid-hitched was not the plan.