Marna's pov:

What...?

"The... storyteller disappeared...?" I asked, my voice shaking a bit because I was confused and shocked at the same time.

Cora gave me a worried expression before she took in a deep breath and continued.

"The day you became human, the storyteller disappeared."

"What... But how?"

Cora shrugged her shoulders and blinked a few times since she was getting uncomfortable by Sori and Woohyun's stare, like she was getting pierced by those laser eyes.

"So, you have to be extra careful. We can't have you not be back in the sea when it's time. You have more than a week, but still, take note of the time you have left here. What if the storyteller was just saying anything without having anything basic and was lying?"

I swallowed and felt my body shivering a bit.

No... I can't stay here... I need to go back to my home.. to the ocean, where I belong.

"No one saw her?" I asked, still shocked by the news. Because wy? Just why did she disappear?

Cora sighed and shook her head in disappointment. "No, no one saw her, it was like she suddenly turned into..."

"...Bubbles.." I finished and widened my eyes. "No... she can't have been turned into bubbles... she didn't die... She can't die..." I frowned.

Cora looked down and moved her big tail a bit.

"She can. You forgot... We don't age that much and we don't die by age..."

I nodded, knowing how mermaids are born and how they die. We don't get brought to the world by parents, we aren't born as childs, we don't age to real old people.

Forever young...

No, that