Even with her limited understanding of genetics, Polly was aware that fish of the same species would have their differences. However the fish before her might as well have been a zucchini, given how different they looked from the other two royal grammas.
Rather than the simple, ordinary, normal, natural, average, conventional, commonplace, standard, generic, expected, typical, run-of-the-mill, routine yellow in the front purple in the back or purple in the front yellow in the back pattern that the hostage and Evangeline respectively sported, this fish’s scales were purple on the top and yellow on the bottom, with the violet color reaching down to their pectoral fins.
It gave Polly the impression that the fish had seen a coat they thought looked cool and were taking a stab at imitating
