“The one that improved all the maps! How was finding an entire lagoon full of mermaids? I wish I could meet a mermaid.” “Kid, they drown people.” Elliot waved this off. “Is it true that the river mermaids have a common tongue but the mermaids who live in lakes have all entirely separate languages, though they can usually speak the language of the people who live near the lakes, and the saltwater mermaids seem to only speak the languages most common to sailors? Do you think the sea mermaids do have their own language but only use it in the deep? Because that’s what I think.” Rachel threw back
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