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Chapter 3: The Wall
I finally fell asleep after constantly looking at the boy on the phone screen. Suina explained to me if I overused the cell phone it's lifespan would run out and the phone would die. This morning when I woke up, the lifespan was at thirty-three percent. I guess I needed to look at the boy a little less to save the life of the phone. So, today, I decided to keep the phone safely in my kelp bag as I sat through my father's boring meeting for royalty figures.
"And so, I would appreciate if we know for the remainder of the meeting turn out attention to humans." Now this sparked my interest and I sat up in my seat, eager to hear more. Is daddy finally considering mermaids to have contact with humans?
"There have been many more ships that we have discovered coming near Glaciara. Numbers that are far more than our usual." I didn't see this going anywhere good considering daddy's tone.
"I can't risk Glaciara's exposure because of these humans! And because of this threat, I'm proposing we do the following." Before daddy appeared a projection of a giant wall being constructed over all of Glaciara. As the projection played on, Daddy spoke.
"A wall will be built by our finest contractors we have here in the kingdom. The boats will no longer be our concern with the wall protecting and hiding the kingdom." My heart was screaming with every word that Daddy said. With the wall built and the guards finding no more human treasures, how will I find out anything else about the human world? Or, the boy?
I arose from my seat, silencing my father. "No Daddy this can't happen!"
Heads tuned to look at me, everyone shocked that I opposed my father's wishes.
"Roan…"
"How could you do this? There is nothing wrong with the human world!" my father's face was furious, his cheeks flushing a shade of crimson.
I stormed out of the room, making sure I took my kelp bag with the phone.
"You just got up and left?" Cora asked as we made our way to the cave.
"Yes. I couldn't bear to hear it any longer. Completely shutting out the human world, I couldn't even imagine my life."
"Roan, it's forbidden."
"I know it is, Cora. Where is this coming from? You've never had a problem with me being involved in the human world before."
"I know, and I still don't. I'm just worried, Roan."
"Well don't be. Everything is okay."
We reached the mouth of the cave and I got my light stick out as Cora got hers. We swam into the cave together, our light sticks shinning. I was hoping to find something else that would lead to the boy and tell me more about him. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I had to try.
"Roan!" Cora and I both turned around at the sound of my father's morbid voice.
