Perhaps she’d heard it as well, because she yanked the fins off her feet. He wasn’t sure why she was doing that, considering she’d need them if she wanted to flee from him, but then he realized she was going to wiggle deeper. One fin popped off, revealing multiple tiny flippers at the base of her twin tails. If he hadn’t been so startled, he would have used the moment to snag her. But he was horrified at the sight of them. They were mangled. Cut at the ends as if someone had taken a sharp stone to her flippers for decoration. They were so small, too. Was she deformed? Was that why her people
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