PureJewel

In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart's desire? Dive into a world of mermaids, mermen, and other merfolk, where every character has secrets, and nothing is what it seems!
The whales have granted the merfolk eternal life, and asked you for so little in return. Defense against the giant squid. Secrecy from humans. But when a rogue mermaid tries to destroy the gift of immortality, ancient secrets rise from the depths, and the delicate balance of society rests in your hands.

Baits

You give Flynn explanations as reassuringly as possible, but he does not enjoy the answers: no cooking, no toilets. The process of letting his skin get pecked at by cleaner fish seems to hit him the hardest.


You finish with the most important information: the limits of the breathing spell. "You must always stay within the city, or be accompanied by merfolk," you tell Flynn. "If you ever leave our protective aura, the ocean will crush you. Or drown you. Or both."


Flynn blanches. "Nobody told me that," he says. "I could have died." He presses his head into his hands and is silent for a while. After some time, he speaks softly and deliberately: "I love Tephra. Very much." He pauses. "But that's kind of scary. Dying if I don't have a chaperone? And nobody told me? I need to know: Am I welcome here?" He looks down.


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