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*11 years before*
All Kael could remember were his mother's warm hands holding his. He felt her tremble. His mother, the strong Darkoner, trembled. Just like Zia, his older sister. But Zia wasn't here. She hadn't been here for three days. Kael's father walked beside his mother. He was trembling too. His cheeks were sunken. He looked ill. Just like the whale had seen the calves on the way to the human beach. His mother had told him he had been given chemicals.Did his father have it too? Kael didn't know. He was holding his mother's hand. Her yellow eyes searched for his green ones. "Kael?" "Yes, Mom?" She knelt beside him. "You have to be very brave now, okay? And never, never tell anyone about the merpeople, okay?"Kael frowned. "Why? We're going back in the water, right?" His mother wiped away her tears. She looked at his father. The whale walker knelt beside her. "We can't go back into the water, little one. You'll go to humans, okay? They'll love you.""What...?" Kael's lower lip began to tremble. "Why? Why are you leaving me? First Zia and now you!" Thick tears rolled down his cheeks and fell to the floor. Kael's mother took her son In the arm. "Please don't cry... We can't be with you anymore, okay? You'll have a better life here," she said. Her own voice was choked with tears.His father nodded: "I promise." Kael looked at his parents, confused. "I don't want to leave you..." "But you have to."