I don't know how humans would be able to do something as bad as all that.
[Sure, you could dump things into the ocean that would be poisonous for what lived there, but it's hard to dump enough of anything to kill a whole big section of it. And calling it corruption... it doesn't sound quite like good old pollution. And, besides, that long ago? People weren't really doing the kind of industry that even allowed for anything that poisonous to be made on that kind of scale.]
[But, hey, apparently men could turn into mermaids and vice versa, so maybe there's more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy or whatever.]
I guess that's why you guys have so many rules about talking to humans, then? [If their history says that humans caused a catastrophe, than, well, it would make sense for them to forbid dealing with them anymore. Massive man-made horrors revokes your mermaid visitation privileges.]
I'm glad you aren't listening to the rules. [Gepard might otherwise be a very law-abiding mer, but if he had observed this particular law, than Sampo would've never seen him again after his rescue.] I promise I won't bring about any catastrophes!
[Gepard makes a noise because as much as he hates to admit it, he's had similar thoughts - sure, there's laws against merfolk and humans interacting, and there's a story, but every single time he surfaced he couldn't help but wonder just how it was this unspecified disaster happened? And also, if there was a disaster, wouldn't it have spread? Because things do spread, especially when you're in water. More than once, Gepard thought (a little bit enviously) that it must be nice to not have to worry about dinner floating out of your reach because of a sudden current.
But Sampo doesn't need to know that. He just- stares at the water instead of at Sampo.]
Please don't remind me of the laws. It just makes me feel like I should turn myself in.
[He won't, but.]
As for the rest, I always did find it strange that for all we supposedly once had a city closer to the surface, no one knew where it might be- but my sisters are the academics, not me.
[No, haha, don't turn yourself in to the police, you're too hot.]
[But back to the more interesting topic than just why Sampo would like his handsome aquatic boo to continue to skirt the laws of his people...]
Yeah, that is strange. Strange that people wouldn't be talking about it, either, if we used to know where there was a whole city of mermaids. That's the kind of thing that you'd tell stories about, y'know? Or write books about.
[Not just a few isolated fairytales about sailors being rescued by pretty fish women with their tits out, but an actual whole civilization that lived just off the coast. That's one of those things that people don't forget in a hurry, there would be like. Records? People definitely would've written that one down.]
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[Sure, you could dump things into the ocean that would be poisonous for what lived there, but it's hard to dump enough of anything to kill a whole big section of it. And calling it corruption... it doesn't sound quite like good old pollution. And, besides, that long ago? People weren't really doing the kind of industry that even allowed for anything that poisonous to be made on that kind of scale.]
[But, hey, apparently men could turn into mermaids and vice versa, so maybe there's more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy or whatever.]
I guess that's why you guys have so many rules about talking to humans, then? [If their history says that humans caused a catastrophe, than, well, it would make sense for them to forbid dealing with them anymore. Massive man-made horrors revokes your mermaid visitation privileges.]
I'm glad you aren't listening to the rules. [Gepard might otherwise be a very law-abiding mer, but if he had observed this particular law, than Sampo would've never seen him again after his rescue.] I promise I won't bring about any catastrophes!
[Probably. That he knows of.]
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But Sampo doesn't need to know that. He just- stares at the water instead of at Sampo.]
Please don't remind me of the laws. It just makes me feel like I should turn myself in.
[He won't, but.]
As for the rest, I always did find it strange that for all we supposedly once had a city closer to the surface, no one knew where it might be- but my sisters are the academics, not me.
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[No, haha, don't turn yourself in to the police, you're too hot.]
[But back to the more interesting topic than just why Sampo would like his handsome aquatic boo to continue to skirt the laws of his people...]
Yeah, that is strange. Strange that people wouldn't be talking about it, either, if we used to know where there was a whole city of mermaids. That's the kind of thing that you'd tell stories about, y'know? Or write books about.
[Not just a few isolated fairytales about sailors being rescued by pretty fish women with their tits out, but an actual whole civilization that lived just off the coast. That's one of those things that people don't forget in a hurry, there would be like. Records? People definitely would've written that one down.]