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Muffled cries and sounds of splashing water shook the merman from his daydream.
He gazed suspiciously about. All around him towers of green kelp with twisted rubbery pods climbed from the sand all the way to the surface. Calico fish—speckled brown and red—swam by in zig zag patterns. Pale blue bubbles danced up from their mouths.
Curious, he scratched the scales below his hip and shook his tail a few times to propel himself towards the surface.
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