"Wait....JESUS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT, I WAS SUPPOSED TO REMIND YOU! W-WE NEED TO GET GOING LIKE-, NOW!""
nope he was already WAYYY ahead of Flounder-in the meantime...Ursula, the deadly sea witch who had long ago been exiled from the kingdom(and who is my favorite disney villain of all time-) had sent her pet eels to search the waters for a piece of information or useful tool she could use to bring down King Triton once and for all and rule the ocean for herself-she could see through her eel's eyes-she caught a glimpse of Kai swimming and smirked. Now this-she could use. ANYWAYS-Kai reached the castle, Flounder frantically swimming behind him
Kai flinched and shrank into himself a little, bottom lip quivering. Flounder quickly swam out from behind him
???: "I-I-It's not his fault!! ...T-There was this shark, see! A-And it chased us-a-and we tried to get away...b-but we couldn't! A-And then-and then there was this seagull and-"
Merpeople were explicitly forbidden from going to the surface. Humans were believed to be dangerous, but Kai had always been curious-and too stubborn to listen to his father's warnings or lectures. And like-obviously-seagulls are land creatures sooo-