Muffled voices above the waves shouted and screamed. Blurred shapes of figures pointing in panic were a firm reminder that old Captain Copper wasn’t lying.

The water felt cold, its usual comfortable embrace gone. Neither land nor sea wanted her.

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Ammy had always been curious about land and the people that lived up there. Even before she could talk she had an obvious draw to the shore. Copper warned her in every way he could to avoid humanity, but she just never listened.

After a pretty heated argument in her teen years, she swam up to shore to investigate. She came across a luau and was enchanted by it, but was soon discovered and a commotion was made. She retreated to the sea, and for quite some time stayed there, but it wouldn’t last forever…