'I need to first make her appreciate her charms more....'
Austin thought, nobody knew it but Marlene is extremely conscious about her charms, the beings of the sea who knows about Marlene's achievements and has heard rumors about her fear and respect for her, but none had ever risen up to challenge her heart, everyone of them, felt unworthy.
The ones of the land even feared her more, there was once an idiot that ran behind her hoping to use her to himself, let's just say that he didn't have a very good ending, thus it cut off anybody of the land that wanted her heart, there's also the deep thought in her that she wasn't 'woman' like, Marlene believes that she doesn't have any redeeming qualities that would make any man stay with her for long.
