Noni peeked behind the jagged rock that sat anchored halfway into the sandbed below and halfway above the ocean water. She shivered even though the sun warmed her wet body with its beams. It wasn't the weather that made her uneasy, it was the sight of the billowing sails of a ship coming towards her direction. She knew that she should dive back into the deep and become lost in the silent abyss of the waters below, but curiosity kept her frozen in place. All of the warnings of mermaids getting caught in nets and hauled aboard ships to be kept as beings of curiosity, to be tortured to death, wasn't enough to frighten her away. She wanted to see if the stories were true, if these humans were monsters of the land, and in fact, all evil?