Luz was walking through the fish market, occasionally checking her phone to see if her wives had texted back yet... nothing. She decided to call them. First she picked Amity, since she was at the top of her contacts list. She waited several seconds before she got the voicemail.

"Hi, this is Amity Wittebane, I'm unavailable right now, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

"Amity, it's Luz, I was wondering if you had found anything about the..." Luz looked around, seeing a lot of people working, "Issue... we have. Call me back."

She then called Boscha... if she's not underwater right now, she should be able to answer, and Luz didn't expect Boscha to be in the water this long.

"Hey, it's Boscha, leave me a message, or don't. Do me a favor don't text me, it's gay."

(Hangover reference in case you haven't watched that movie)

In the background you could hear Amity yell "You're literally married to two women!".

"Boscha, I was wondering if you found something. Let me know when you get a minute."

Luz put her phone away and kept walking around, wondering if she could find something... which is hard as she didn't speak Japanese. She walked around, seeing different fish and sea creatures for sale. The predator in her felt hungry, but the Ichthyologist in her felt a bit upset. Places like this over harvest fish, pushing them to extinction. She shook that out of her head, she had work to do, regardless of her feeling about this place.

'I'm not here as Ichthyologist Luz Wittebane, I'm here as Queen Luz Wittebane.' Luz thought, 'I need to find that mermaid, it's important that I make sure my species is safe.'

Luz came upon a stand with a girl only about two years younger than her. She had wavy brown hair, brown eyes, black square glasses, and dark skin. She was wearing a blue jumpsuit, yellow gloves, and a black apron. Luz felt a bit nervous as she was going to try and speak the several Japanese words she knew... to try and make a full conversation.

"Uh... Kon'nichiwa... uh." Luz said, trying to think, "Watashi wa... Yasui baishunpu?"

The girl smirked.

"Sorry honey, don't care how cheap you are, I'm dating someone." She said in perfect english.

"What the hell did I just say?"

"You said you were a cheap prostitute." She said, making Luz blush, "But, good effort! My name is Katsuko Sato, but my girlfriend calls me Cat."

"You are... very good at English." Luz said.

"Yeah, my mom was an African American that was born in Arizona, she met my dad on a trip here and they fell in love. I spoke some good English by the time I met my girlfriend, and she helped me learn it better in exchange for teaching her Japanese." Cat said, "So that's my story, what about you?"

"Uh... my name is Luz, I'm here with my family for work." Luz said, not wanting to give to much away.

Cat's eyes went wide.

"Luz? Like... Luz Wittebane?" Cat asked, "Oh, I've wanted to meet you for so long!"

'Huh, guess I'm known in the fish community... well, dad is a world famous aquarium owner.'

"Well, I'm flattered then." Luz said, "So why have you wanted to-"

Luz took a step back and bumped into someone carrying a crate. Both Luz and the person fell over.

"Oh no, I'm so sor-"

Luz then saw the person she bumped into.

"Skara?"


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