•Previously•
They scarcely felt hungry as they trained for days without eating sometimes. They looked like high school kids but were highly trained in witchcraft and Lila stayed underwater for days, hunting. Lila remembered being out for days searching for her lost mother even though Jack strictly restricted it. She had never actually been used to eating sea creatures just like the other mermaids in her pod did. So they never felt that hunger was something that could kill them They never felt the need to even be scared about starving to death because it had numbed after all those years of training.