After the dolphin massacre, and a good nights rest I decided to expand my border a bit just in case more decided they wanted in. I extended it at about an extra 13 clicks(I guess a little longer than a meter). I stopped there because I didn't want my area to be so large that I couldn't protect it properly. That and I had actually extended it so far that I reached the end of the mangrove. Past the mangrove I could see where the large pool of water actually stopped and along it was a collection of housing areas for humans. In fact a few of them were in the water casting weaved wires and catching the fish with them while human guppies played in the nearby water. I was safe as long as I was in my mangrove, but that didn't stop me from feeling un easy. I couldn't leave the pool, the community over at the edge was proof, and I had nowhere else to go, the ants would eat me if I tried to make it all the back to the main river. I hardly doubted the rainy season would start up again so soon after just a few fins plus a couple of twist(weeks in you're time so I'm told). I seemed to be trapped in an unsavory situation. I swam back to my mangrove and into my little den under a few roots of the mangrove tree. I was trapped but that didn't mean I would scare off easily. I didn't want humans to see me I just had to stay away from them and in my mangrove, they hadn't come in this far for all the fins I'd been here so why should they now? I reassured myself as I took a small nap. They'd leave me alone I'd leave them alone and we'd all be happy. If only I had known.
When I woke up again it was in the late evening as the sun was dipping behind the forest line dragging the light with it. I swam out from underneath my lair checking to see if there were any threat to my area but found none so I swam out in the open. It was a gorgeous sunset, so I decided why not catch the last few sun rays? I swam up to the bank and laid on my back raising my dorsal fin slightly as the sun hit me. It felt great to soak up sunlight. Merfolk love the sun basking in it on sand bars, rock faces, or beaches it was just nice to feel the warming rays. It wasn't nice however when it was interrupted by a high pitched voice calling in it's strange tongue and laughing...hold on voices?...I hissed and took to the water hoping the human guppy saw nothing but a large tailfin that I hoped he thought was a fish. I stirred up the muddy water to hide myself and went into my den. It was silent after that…too silent. I knew that this was bad sign, I had to relocate somehow otherwise I would be exposed, and the merfolk would live a life of fear and hiding all thanks to me.