Men are liars, Aya. Every last stinking one of them!
Those words from my older sister Shub rang through my mind, and I should have listened. The sea broke around me as I swam to the surface for the first time in my life.
All Lemurians could swim topside when they turned 15 years of age, but I never bothered. I had no interest in human men. If they were liars, they were useless to me. But staying in the ocean my entire life felt constricting. There were only so many conch shells I could find at...