Lucia
About an hour after Analee had been born I remembered what Nikora and the other Mermaids had told me about:
"Lucia, even though this is a taboo, it doesn't mean it's never happened before. If you really want to go through with this, remember that you need to get your daughter into the water within 24 hours of her birth or not only will she never grow her fins, she will lose her Pearl and never be able to sing or possibly never talk! Also, it has to be water from The North Pacific Ocean ((Risu-san: the Ocean Lucia rules, for those of you who don't know))"
"Wait Nikora, how do you know it will be a girl?"
"Because there are no males in the Mermaid world. It has never happened."
Looks like Nikora was right.
The doctors had left so I turned to Kaito. "Kaito," he looked at me. "We need to get Analee to the Ocean."
"What?"
"Lucia's right, if you don't in the next 23 hours, she won't become a Mermaid and could lose her voice," Hanon knew more on the subject than I.
"But there's no way there gonna let you out within 24 hours of the baby's birth!" Kaito was right.
"True," Hanon spoke up again. "But we need to find a way to get her to the North Pacific Ocean as well."
"Do you really think this is the best course of action?" Rina had joined us sometime within the hour
"I don't want her to lose her voice! How long would it take to get to the Ocean? We might be able to convince them to let us out soon en-aaah!" I felt a sudden pain in my chest.
"Lucia?" they both cried out in unison. The monitor for my heartbeat was spiking. Suddenly the doctor was in the room and I was surrounded by nurses. My breathing was starting to become uneven and I heard them saying something about Analee's heart-rate too. I wanted Kaito to be near me, but they'd ushered everyone out of the room. My vision was starting to dwindle...