Here is the next chapter! More mermaid language, since that was a hit!

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Chapter 5- Getting to Know a Mermaid

Finnick

It has been three days since we took the mermaid from her home in the ocean and she still will not talk to me. She won't talk to any of us. She just mutters words in what I assume to be her native tongue. I know this better than anyone though. I will sit on the edge of her pool just to listen to her talk and slowly try to win the prize of her lips against mine. "Why do you sit there?" She asks suddenly, days after her capture.

"What?" I am taken aback. It is the first time she has spoken words I can understand since we shared the song.

"Al Neparun." She sighs. She looks up at me once again. "Why do you sit there? I can be almost positive you may do other things than sit with me, not amused. Why do you not join your friends?"

I have to think as I piece together her words, trying to understand her broken grammar. "I- I sit with you because I think we can become friends." She looks at me confused. "I saw you jump out of the water. Your tail was white, but as soon as it hit the sun it turned pink. Why is that? When you jumped out your hair was curly, but it became straight. Why don't you eat me, either? My grandfather lost several men to mermaids when he sailed the seas."

I swarm her with questions and she doesn't answer them instead she turns to me. "Why aren't you with your grandfather? Why do you humans never change? Why haven't you slaughtered me yet? My kind have lost many of our brothers and sisters to your venali ways."

I push my hair back out of my face and look at her with the same confusion she offered me, but I know if I don't answer her questions she will not answer mine. "Why don't we take turns? I can answer a question and then you do the same?" She doesn't say anything. "I'll be back in a moment."

I run off to the ships kitchen where Peeta is preparing our dinner. "Trident! What brings you here and away from the mermaid?"

I rummage around the small room. "Do we still have any of that cake?"

He looks at me confused, but nods. "Yeah. Why?"

"I want to give it to the mermaid." I look a little more when I feel a tap on my shoulder. Peeta is holding two plates with two forks and two pieces of cake. "Thanks."

He pats me on the back once he transfers the cake to me. "Good luck."

I leave the kitchen and make my way to where the mermaid resides. She has her tail in the water, but her head, shoulders and body are out, leaning against the ship like it's a wall of a pool. "I brought you and me cake. We can eat this while we answer one another's questions." I pass it to her but she just looks at it.

"How do I know you did not poison it?" In response I take a bite of my cake and she just looks at it warily before she starts to nibble on her own. "This- this is good."

I smile. "See! You can trust me. What is your name?"

She lets a playful, beautiful smirk take over her face. "I thought I got to ask the first question."

I nod. "You did. You asked about poison and it isn't poisoned. So now it is my turn. What is your name?"

She smiles and ponders for a moment. "In my language, my name is Analei, but in yours, it would be Annie. Can I ask your name?"

I smile. "Annie is a beautiful name that fits you perfectly. My name is Finnick." Annie starts to laugh and I look at her once again. "What is so funny?"

"I apologize but finnick is a word in my language. It is not a name. Finnick is the word we use for shark. You are not a shark and you do not resemble one in any way." She looks me over like I am looking at her. "If anything, you are a dagerralei, a weapon."

I shrug. "My friends on this ship all call me Trident."

She smiles. "Hmm, Treyseron. I think I like Finnick better than Treyseron." She looks at me more carefully. "Why do they insist on calling you Trident? Any reason?"

I tell her my story about the siren and she nods. "I understand how you could get us confused, but mermaids do not have rainbow tails. The most I have seen on a mermaid is four. I have a brother, Heterason –no- Hunter, who has two colors on his tail, gray and blue. An odd color combination, don't you think?"

I am confused by her words. "Here colors don't have meaning. What does your tail mean? What color does pink mean?"

She starts to blush, but speaks anyway. "Pink is the rarest color. It means love and beauty. Do colors have no meaning here? How does one tell what a person is like?"

I shrug. "We just talk, I guess. We talk like we are doing now. Just by talking to you, I can certainly tell your tail is correct. You are one of love and beauty, but I believe you are one of kindness as well. What color is that?"

She looks at her tail and makes ripples in the pool with it. "There is no color for kindness. Our kind lost that color centuries ago, when a mermaid consumed a human for the first time. Her tail was violet but when she ate the human, her tail turned black, with no other color, as did her heart. Mermaids only eat humans for selfish reasons. They eat humans to obtain youth and must kill a human one time a year to remain so. Those mermaids are no longer mermaids, but Sea Witches. Our kind do not interact."

She turns silent and goes to the other side of the pool. "Thank you for the cake." She then disappears under the surface and it doesn't seem like she will reappear any time soon. I wonder what made her so upset?

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