Zen was engrossed in an article she'd stumbled upon while searching through sixty year old newspaper articles looking for any evidence of the suspected mermaid child.
She wasn’t sure what she was hoping to find. Maybe that the mermaid was still alive and living in San Diego? She had so much she wanted to know. She had no idea what her future would look like, what to expect. Her powers were becoming more and more demanding as she got older and she feared what that could mean.
It was possible that they would just hit a peak and stabilize there. It was also possible that her magic could demand more and more of her until she had no choice but to embrace what she really was and return to the sea, but living alone in the dark empty oceans... That was the reality she feared. That she wasn't fi
