"K-KAI WAIT FOR ME! I-I DON'T WANNA BE ALONE OUT H-HERE"
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-