He turned his head to regard the other mer still diligently keeping up with him, and even with his continual struggling, he had to admire some of that tenacity. It annoyed him too but he respected it too. Chasing off this particular specimen was going spectacularly. Normally it only took saying that he worked for humans to get a snub and a hiss of insult for his apparent life choices.
"And they know how to catch merfolk," he replied coldly. "I have a time limit; if I haven't made contact at that limit, they will come to find me after paralyzing me. If they don't come fast enough, I drown." There was way more to it than that, but it was the basics.
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Date: 2016-06-04 01:25 pm (UTC)"And they know how to catch merfolk," he replied coldly. "I have a time limit; if I haven't made contact at that limit, they will come to find me after paralyzing me. If they don't come fast enough, I drown." There was way more to it than that, but it was the basics.