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The storm wrenches the fishing vessel in half.

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The yawning sound of metal buckling and ripping
can barely be heard over the explosive waves.

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Crew members pour out of the fragmented ship,
washed away with the water, like ants fleeing

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a flooding nest.

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The deck lurches and tips upwards into the
air.

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A wave crashes against it, almost knocking
the Sailor off the railing, but he clings

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on for dear life.

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Soaked through, shivering violently and feeling
the dreaded exhaustion creeping into his limbs,

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he looks around helplessly as his crewmates
drown around him.

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Only one man remains on the deck with him.

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But the Captain’s usual steely confidence
has gone.

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Behind the man’s bushy beard and grizzled
skin, the Sailor sees a little boy scared

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out of his mind.

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The Captain grabs the Sailor by the scruff
of the neck and hauls him close enough for

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them to shout over the sound of the seas around
them.

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‘I saw her!’

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The Captain’s rambling and ranting, repeating
himself and gesticulating wildly at the seas

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around them.

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‘The Naiad, I saw her in the water this
morning.

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Our voyage was cursed from the start!

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We should never have left port.

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She’s in the water now, she-’

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A colossal wave throws what is left of the
boat through the air.

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The railing slips through the Sailor’s fingers
as he flies high between the waves.

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For a moment, the world stands still.

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It’s like he’s a gull hovering in place,
surveying the carnage beneath him.

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And there in the water…

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what looks like…

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But the world isn’t standing still.

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He hurtles back toward the ocean and slams
into it, hard enough to knock the air clean

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out of his lungs.

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Icy water tugs at him, pulling him downwards,
deeper and deeper, colder and colder.

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Like arms wrapping around him, dragging him…

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The Sailor wakes with a start.

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Water laps at his face.

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What were once hulking waves are now little
more than ripples.

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He spits out a mouthful of sand and shakes
his head.

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His body’s trembling violently from the
cold, but the warm glow of the sun on his

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back is already doing its best to help him.

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How on earth had he survived that?

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There are groans all around him.

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Dotted along the beach are his fellow fishermen.

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He hasn’t got the energy to count them,
but it doesn’t look like all of them.

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Just ahead of him, further up the beach, sits
the Captain.

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Rocking back and forth, trembling, the Captain
noiselessly points a finger out to sea.

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Using what little energy he has left, the
Sailor rolls onto his back to see the silhouette

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of a woman standing there on the water.

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No, not a silhouette.

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The morning sunlight is shining straight through
her as if she’s made of nothing but water.

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She steps delicately across the surface of
the water, walking towards the coughing fishermen

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who have all seen her by now.

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There’s a delicacy to how she walks, tiptoeing
gently on the rippling water as if scared

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of disturbing it even slightly.

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The light dances and glitters on her skin
like it does across the ocean.

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No, not skin.

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She really is made of water, every inch of
her is composed entirely of what looks like

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the purest cleanest water the Sailor has ever
seen.

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Was it her?

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The arms that he felt dragging him through
the water.

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Did she save him?

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Did she save all of them?

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The Water Nymph waits with the men until the
ambulances arrive.

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She walks across the sand going between them.

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Every few minutes, she dips her toes back
in the sea and takes what looks like a deep

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breath, even though she has no lungs to fill,
then she’s back amongst them, offering noiseless

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comfort.

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There’s an old abandoned house just up from
the beach.

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What looks like the mansion of a former millionaire.

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In apparent fascination, the Nymph keeps going
over to examine the ornate fountain in the

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courtyard.

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Even in a state of disrepair, the fountain
is stunning.

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She lowers herself gently into the water and
disappears under the surface, just as the

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first ambulance rounds the corner.

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As the paramedics wrap the foil blanket around
the Sailor and walk him to the vehicle, he

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catches the Nymph poking her head out of the
surface of the fountain’s water.

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He’s not the only one to see.

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Tucked just out of sight near the treeline
is a nondescript black sedan, with a group

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of men sitting inside.

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One of them takes a photograph of the water
woman in the fountain while another talks

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urgently over the phone.

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The Sailor has barely been in the back of
the ambulance for two minutes before one of

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the men from the car approaches him.

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The man holds an expensive-looking watch in
his hand.

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‘Excuse me, sir, does this belong to you?’

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The Sailor sits up suspiciously.

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He’s about to open his mouth to refute the
man, when the needle penetrates his thigh,

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and the amnestic fills his bloodstream.

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By the time the Sailor arrives in hospital,
all his memories of the previous 24 hours

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have slipped away into the abyss.

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The containment team is at work in less than
six hours.

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While a group of agents, dressed in scrubs,
follow the ambulances to the hospital to ensure

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all accounts of the ship’s crash have been
entirely erased, another team sets to work

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cordoning off the beach.

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A tourist family, excited about their day
at the beach, argue with the disguised agents

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cordoning off the road.

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‘I’m sorry ma’am, but there’s nothing
we can do.

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A shark sighting is a shark sighting.

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We just can’t risk it today.’

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Meanwhile, a steady stream of construction
vehicles rumble past, followed by a large

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Home Depot truck.

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They all pull up outside the mansion, where
a team of agents has the fountain surrounded.

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Tasers and cattle prods at the ready, they
grip their weapons at even the slightest ripple

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of water.

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Excavators get to work quickly, drilling at
the ground around the fountain, and cracking

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through the paving stones.

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And before anyone nearby has any clue of what's
happening, the fountain has been removed,

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loaded into the back of the water-tight fake
Home Depot truck, and has disappeared off

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over the horizon.

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The Water Nymph refuses to poke her head out
of the water the whole way.

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The world around her is dark and dry.

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It shakes and rumbles for hours.

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The beautiful fountain she’d climbed into
just a few hours earlier now feels tiny.

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There’s barely enough water in here for
her to swim in a circle.

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She’d always observed these strange-looking
vehicles from a distance, lifting her eyes

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up above the waves for a few minutes to watch
them crawling along the dark roads with their

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18 wheels.

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She’d always wondered what was inside all
of them with their colorful paints and strange

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names.

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At least she now has some idea of what ‘Home
Depot’ does.

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Part of their business model evidently involves
kidnapping.

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To stop the panic rising up too high in her
chest, the Water Nymph focuses on stilling

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the water in the fountain.

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All of the bumps and turns in the road, she
focuses all her energy on holding all the

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water in place and keeping it level.

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If the water around her is still, maybe she
won’t feel so scared.

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It isn’t really working, but at least her
precious little amount of fresh water isn’t

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spilling out all over the watertight inside
of the container.

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She’s just about convinced herself that
she is used to her cage when it suddenly stops.

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The rumble sound cuts out, the shaking stops,
and voices somewhere outside discuss what

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to do with her.

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Saying words like ‘containment protocol’,
‘initial testing’ and ‘security measures’.

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The Water Nymph dips her head back below the
surface of the water as the rear doors open.

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She’s going to make the most of this, that’s
what she’s decided.

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Having spent all her life underwater, observing
the humans from afar, she’d always dreamed

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of one day meeting one.

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There had been moments, sure.

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Times when she’d wave at a child on the
deck of a ferry or guide a ship through the

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fog.

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But up close?

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Never.

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They look funny, these people.

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When you see them up close, they’re such
strange colors.

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So fleshy and hairy.

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It’s bizarre not being able to see through
them.

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How are they supposed to swim?

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These humans, in particular, are even more
strange than the others.

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Dressed in long white coats, always walking
around with clipboards and strange little

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devices that light up and make sounds when
they poke them.

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She wonders if they get sick of having their
legs stuck to the ground all the time.

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What if they see something interesting floating
above them?

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They can’t just swim upwards, they need
to get on one of those plane things.

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This will be fun, getting to meet real people
for the first time.

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She keeps telling herself that because if
she doesn’t, it all becomes too scary.

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They haven’t put her back in the sea, a
river, or even a pool.

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They’ve just kept her in her fountain.

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It sits right in the middle of a brightly
lit chamber.

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Four white walls, a white ceiling, and a white
floor.

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One white door.

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The lights are always on, the temperature
always the same.

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For days and days, she just sits in her fountain
alone.

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Occasionally one of the humans will come in
wearing a big rubber suit.

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They look totally ridiculous.

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Taking big slow steps, they’ll approach
her fountain.

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The first time, she jumped up out of the water
to greet the human, doing her best to wave

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like she’s seen them do to each other.

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But the human immediately turned around and
ran back out of the chamber.

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So next time, she was slow and gentle.

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Raising both her hands innocently and letting
the human approach without doing anything.

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The human lowered some kind of glass container
into the water in her fountain and took some

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of the water away.

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He must have been thirsty.

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She’s seen the humans get like that sometimes.

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How they’re not thirsty all the time, she
has no clue, it doesn’t look like there’s

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a drop of water anywhere in them.

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Except for their eyes.

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She tries to catch the human’s eye as he
leaves, but he just walks straight out of

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her chamber, carrying away the little container
of water.

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But this time, she has an idea.

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She waits patiently for a few days waiting
for another one of the humans to come and

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see her.

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It’s hard to tell how much time has passed
because it’s always sunny in here, but it

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must have been a few days by now.

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Sure enough, the door opens, and a human in
another big rubber costume comes in.

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She rises out of the water slowly so as not
to scare them and lets her form melt and shift.

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Feeling her body flow into a different shape,
she does her best to copy the human’s big

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rubber suit.

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She’s practiced this for years in the sea,
copying the shapes of different humans she

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sees.

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The human stops walking and stares at her.

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She tries to wave again.

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The human waves back.

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Success!

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For almost a minute, they stand there waving
at each other.

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She knows this is longer than most humans
would wave at each other, but it’s just

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so exciting she can’t help herself.

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Maybe this will be her first friend.

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Imagine that, having a human friend!

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The human takes a hesitant step towards her.

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This is her chance.

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Lifting herself up and out of the water, the
Nymph steps out of her fountain for the first

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time.

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She pauses, careful not to spook the human.

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They do scare very easily, but this time he
stays.

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Better than that, he takes another step towards
her.

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Then another until they’re within touching
distance.

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She can feel the water beating in her chest,
pumping excitedly through her body.

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The human has another one of those glass containers
in its hand.

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It raises the container up slowly for her
to look at.

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She leans in to see why this strange little
creature is showing her a piece of glass.

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She’s seen these a thousand times before
in the seas.

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There’s glass and plastic everywhere for
her to look at.

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What’s so special about this one?

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The human takes a swipe at her.

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The glass container strikes the side of her
head and extracts a chunk of water.

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She staggers away, hands raised in fear.

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What had she done wrong?

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Why did the human do that to her?

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She feels faint.

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Her head swims and not in the usual pleasant
way.

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Her body works hard to redistribute all of
the water around her body, rebuilding that

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part of herself in a split second.

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But it doesn’t stop the pain or the sudden
wave of tiredness.

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She stumbles back into the fountain and plunges
beneath the surface, letting the water merge

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with her body again.

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But the surface of the fountain isn’t still.

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It trembles and shakes as she lies at the
bottom in fear.

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Why had the human done that to her?

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By the time she has the courage to peek out
of the water again, the human is gone.

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The lights in the ceiling seem brighter than
ever.

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The next day is the first time she really
misses the sea.

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She would race from coast to coast, feeling
herself getting dragged along in the ocean

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gyres as she flowed between continents.

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She would study the rainbow colors of the
Great Barrier Reef before catching a current

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to Venice or Jamaica.

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She’d hug the bottom of cruise ships and
dance in and out of the propellers on the

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backs of cargo ships.

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But here, in her cell, all she can do is swim
around her fountain.

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Round and round in circles.

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That is, until the humans return.

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Three of them come into her room, each carrying
strange long objects.

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She’s not sure she’s seen those things
before and is desperate for a closer look,

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but after what happened with the glass the
other day, it doesn’t seem like a good idea.

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She still hasn’t worked out what she did
wrong there, but clearly the human was not

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happy with her for some reason.

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Best to be very gentle with them for the time
being.

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Until they’re proper friends.

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The three humans have a box with them, full
of water.

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She’s so excited to see it, she leaps straight
out of the fountain before realizing she needs

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to be careful.

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Patiently as she can, she approaches the box
and touches it.

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The humans nod encouragingly.

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Her excitement overwhelms her, and she dives
right in.

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It feels so good to have fresh water to explore,
even if it’s just a small tank.

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She barely even notices as they close the
lid on her and wheel her into a different

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room.

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A glass wall lines the edge of this new chamber.

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Funny little humans in white coats stand behind
it, making notes.

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She climbs out of her little tank and waves
at them.

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It’s a smaller room than her normal one.

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Why have they brought her in here?

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A slamming noise behind her makes her jump,
and she spins around to see the three humans

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have wheeled away her little tanks on wheels,
leaving her alone in the room.

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She looks around with a little anxiety.

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There’s nowhere to swim in here.

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Have they made a mistake?

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She can’t be here without water.

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Doing her best to copy human movements, she
tries to mime to the people behind the glass

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that she needs her water.

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They don’t seem to understand her, just
start scribbling even more things on their

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clipboards.

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It’s warm in here.

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Warm and dry.

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This isn’t good.

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In no time at all, she can feel herself drying
out.

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An hour goes by, then another.

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She’s never been out of the water for this
long.

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What are they doing?

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Don’t they understand what she is?

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Her head starts to feel faint.

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She slumps down on the floor and turns herself
into a ball.

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Shaped like this, hopefully, she won’t be
evaporating so fast.

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Then they’ll give her the water back.

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For hours she sits in a ball, waiting, until
mercifully, her little tank on wheels returns,

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and she’s taken back to her fountain.

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They do the same to her the next day and the
day after that.

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Starving her for hours, then returning her
to her fountain.

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They top up the water in it occasionally,
but other than that, they don’t seem to

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be doing anything nice for her at all.

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Are they doing this on purpose?

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Surely not.

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She’s their friend.

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She’s being kind, doing all of their weird
games even when she doesn’t want to.

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Humans aren’t cruel.

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They wouldn’t do that to her.

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But then she finds herself in a different
situation entirely.

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They do the same as they’ve been doing for
the previous few days, wheeling her into the

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testing chamber and making her stand there
on her own.

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But it’s colder today, much colder.

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She tries to explain to them through the glass,
rubbing her shoulders and shivering, but they

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just keep making their notes.

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This isn’t good.

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She can’t stand the cold.

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It’s not good for her.

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Painful crystals start forming on the surface
of her skin, stabbing into her and solidifying

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her body.

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She cries out noiselessly, but the humans
keep going until she feels herself losing

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consciousness.

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Weeks go by, and with each experiment they
do, the Water Nymph worries more and more

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that these humans aren’t really her friends.

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They’ve started giving her mazes.

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Complex plastic structures that she gets forced
unceremoniously into, where she has to swim

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through various pipes and tubes until she
can push a button on the other side.

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At first, she was expecting a prize.

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Maybe this is why they had her kept here for
so long?

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They needed help solving these puzzles, and
their fleshy bodies couldn’t fit through

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the tubes.

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But nothing happens when she presses the button.

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They just pull a plug and drain her out of
the bottom.

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Today she’s had enough.

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When are they going to put her back in the
ocean?

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She’s just going to wait here at the start
of the maze until they tell her.

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It’s only fair.

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The water in her chest leaps for joy as a
human enters the test chamber and approaches

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her.

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She rises out of the water and waves to greet
him, just as he lifts the long strange device

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in his hand and jabs it into her chest.

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The electricity shoots all through her body
and sets her mind ablaze.

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It takes all her strength not to burst into
a thousand droplets.

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Convulsing and crying, she falls backwards
into the maze.

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The human brandishes the weapon at her again.

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She has nowhere to go but into the maze.

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She solves it in a split second, but as she
presses the button, she feels a sinking feeling

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settling over her.

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What if they don’t want to let her out?

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***

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It’s all her fault.

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What was she thinking?

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Her one shot at making friends, and she’d
blown it.

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She sits crying in her fountain, feeling her
tears flow into the water around her and back

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into her body.

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It was the acid.

00:16:12.649 --> 00:16:14.759
She hates acid, and always has.

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She’d swam near a factory once and got a
dose of it.

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It hurt, more than anything she’d ever felt
before.

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It would flow into her chest and sit there,
burning and burning.

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She can still feel it now.

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So when the humans in the rubber suits had
poured some into her fountains, she’d lost

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her temper, slamming into them with all her
force.

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For months, they’ve been hurting her, jabbing
her and exhausting her.

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But they’re her friends…

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right?

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And you shouldn’t hurt your friends.

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You definitely shouldn’t kill your friends.

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Shouldn’t rip open their rubber suits and
force yourself down their throats, drowning

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them in their own bodies.

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Her fountain’s red with blood and burns
from the acid.

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And it’s all her fault.

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What had she done wrong to make them treat
her like this?

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Why couldn’t they just be friends?

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After a few weeks, a group of humans come
in and clean up the mess, refilling her fountain

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with clean water.

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She doesn’t lift her head above the surface.

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They install a pipe above her fountain that
drip feeds water onto her.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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And just like that, she’s no longer seen
as human.

00:17:16.089 --> 00:17:17.089
Drip.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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The lights burn white.

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The door stays closed.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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The Water Nymph sits in her fountain.

00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:28.079
Drip.

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Drip.

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Drip.

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After a year, she stops crying.

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A year after that, she gives up on thinking
too.

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Three years of near silence pass - with only
the sound of dripping water from the pipe

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- until the door to her chamber opens.

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Something flutters in her chest.

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She lifts her head out of the water.

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