"You see? The harp is far more interesting." He replies automatically, because it's the truth. The convenient thing about living in a relatively enclosed ecological environment, was that Patience had never been much of an issue when it came to his needing to catch fish. There were only so many places for them to hide in the moat, and as a hungry mermaid, Shrieky had tracked down all of these places while he was still relatively young.
i wept :c