The Making of a Merman
“Are you nervous?”
Quince Fletcher looked up at the question. Floating next to him, Lily’s pale blond hair swirled around her like a halo of lemon cotton candy. Her eyes looked a little wider than usual.
Considering what he was about to go through, he shouldn’t have been surprised. By the question or by her obvious nerves.
He flashed a confident grin.
“Why would I be nervous?” he replied with a wink.
“Oh, I don’t know,” Lily said, floating closer. “Maybe because you’re about to go through a magical ceremony that will literally change you forever.”
“That little thing?” He pretended to laugh it off. “No big deal.”
But it was a big deal. A huge deal.
Despite how he was trying to play it up for Lily, on the inside he was definitely… Well, not nervous exactly. Wa
