The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

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Naida, by fae law, was defined as a mermaid, because one of her parents, her father, was a merperson. Genetically she was much more fae than she was mermaid. She didn't have a tail, but both her legs and feet were covered in scales that needed to be regularly washed with salt water otherwise they'd become dry and sore. Having scales on her feet meant that she couldn't wear shoes as they were too uncomfortable. It was impossible for her to spend any length of time underwater as she hadn't inherited her father's merlungs. That was what Naida called them because he didn't have gills and yet he could still breathe normally underwater as well as above the water. At school she'd been taught it was some form of magic that gave them the ability but it wasn't a teachable magic.