Meanwhile, Leron woke up inside a large clamshell.
As beautiful as the most priceless of pearls, the merman prince began his day with a sigh. His many siblings had also woken up from their beds on the ocean floor. Some were in bones of dead whales, large anemones, or they simply laid inside underwater caves of their own.
But the fair Leron was assigned to sleep in a large shell right beside his father's quarters, so the bodyguards can oversee him and he may not escape.
Leron could not recall the name of all his siblings. They were as many as a school of fish. He doubts that his father, King Casserome, can remember them all either.
He looked for a way to escape the guards again, but it always gets trickier every time he was caught. His father doubled the men until they patrol almost every corner, making Leron feel cramped and suffocated.
So many people, yet they are all half-fish.
