The Merman, My Man
If I wasn’t the one who experienced it, I wouldn’t have believed it either.
Merpeople must have some regenerative substances in their saliva that could accelerate cell reproduction! Even modern medicine had not advanced to this degree!
I completely forgot about the fear I was feeling a second ago and excitedly touched his lips as I said to myself, ‘You really surprise me…’
The merman felt my gentle caress and opened his lips, producing the same set of syllables he had uttered to me countless times, “Di-ck-en”.
I hit myself in the head in realization. “Dicken! That’s your name, isn’t it? So you’ve been trying to tell me your name this entire time!”