The sea was a vast blue expanse broken only by wavering shafts of sunlight dappling the gleaming coral below. Through it moved a lone scuba diver, kicking steadily with long, practiced strokes, streams of bubbles curling lazily from his regulator and floating upward toward a surface he could no longer see.
He crested the edge of a reef, one gloved hand brushing lightly along the stone as he pulled himself forward. He gasped, sending out a puff of bubbles into the water. There, hovering just beyond the ridge, was a girl. Not another diver…A mermaid!
