Chapter 41: It Was Different Here

Talori had been on the surface long enough to understand a lot of things. One of them was that money was absolutely necessary for survival and almost everything required it.

Brennan had been taking care of everything for her all this time and she wanted to help him out. She had never thought about any of this before because of her life as a princess where everything was handled without her having to lift a finger.

It was different here. It was probably different for merfolk who weren't nobles too but she had been stuck in the coral palace and never saw it.

The system she grew up with seemed wrong to her now. Everybody she knew up here worked. Brennan was a marine biologist. Harmony and Piper helped run the health food store that was a front for the witch coven. Castian worked at a bank. They were all doing their part to participate in the world.

What about her? All she had ever done was sit around occasionally making jewelry because she was bored. She would have a purpose once she returned home as the new liaison (and planned to be much more involved than Gar had ever been) but what about now?

Talori may be used to sitting around but that didn't mean she liked it. She wanted to do more since she didn't know how long she would be here.

She wasn't completely inept. She knew how to use the technology here and could read, write, and type. As long as someone showed her what she needed to do, she would be able to do it.

As soon as she got a job she planned to have Castian help her set up a bank account and once she had enough money she was going to buy all of her friends presents to show her appreciate for all of their help. Then she was going to help Brennan with the household expenses.

One Saturday morning a couple of weeks after she decided she wanted a job and the fae she knew started asking around she got lucky. Castian knew of an elf-run hospital that would be willing to take her on for a data entry position.

All of the administrators were elves but the majority of the doctors, nurses, and other staff were human. Fae typically didn't do jobs where they had to be involved with humans more than necessary. Who would want to go to such effort to save them?

Talori was curious why elves would even run a hospital for humans but when she asked Castian shrugged. "Hospitals make good money."

Brennan had said that both elves and witches were known for being money-grubbers. She ended up accepting his answer without further questions though she did have them. Mostly she was grateful for the chance to have a job.

Talori would be working in the medical records department. She was eager to learn and be of help. An elf would be her supervisor so she didn't have to worry about there being any issues with her potentially being a slow learner. They knew she hadn't been on the surface for long and were willing to work with her because of Castian's recommendation.

Farryn Peltier's glamour was of a tall, beautiful woman with a regal face, light brown hair, and green eyes. She wore a snappy gray pantsuit and was all business as she greeted Talori on her first day in her private office.

"So you are the one Castian recommended. I am aware of your rather unique situation but I must ask…what are you doing here?"

She shrugged, not wanting to go into details. "I needed a safe place to go for a while. Nobody would think to look for me up here. I truly appreciate your willingness to give me a chance."

"Fae look out for each other. It is how we survive." Farryn shuffled some papers on her desk before holding them out for Talori to take. "This is your onboarding paperwork using the false identity documents I received from the witch coven. I need you to sign everything and I can have someone take it over to HR."

Talori did as she said. According to her human identification documents, her name was Lori Trent. Talori wasn't a name up here and merfolk didn't have last names so she borrowed Brennan's.

She read through it and signed and dated it where necessary. It was fairly straightforward.

Once that was taken care of Farryn left the office and gestured for Talori to follow. She handed off the paperwork to someone who already appeared to be running errands and led her to an empty work station where the chair had already been removed so her wheelchair would fit.

"Alyssa, this is Lori. She'll be working here starting from today so I need you to train her. She doesn't have any data entry experience but she's a fast learner," Farryn instructed the human woman in the workstation next to Talori's.

Alyssa nodded. "I'll take good care of her."

"Thank you. Lori, if you need anything, you know where my office is." With that the elf left, her high heels clicking against the floor.

The human regarded Talori curiously. "Do you know the boss personally?"

"I only met her today."

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Brennan had warned Talori about this. That humans didn't like people using connections to get what they wanted. It was better not to tell the whole truth. She had only met Farryn today but she met her through Castian.

"Huh. That was unusually nice for her. Normally she doesn't take such an interest in new hires. Anyway, what brings you to Hillcrest Hospital?" Alyssa asked.

"My friend has been taking very good care of me and I want to help them out more so I took the first job I could find."

"I see. Well, you picked a good one. The boss might be stickler but it isn't so bad around here. She just likes things to be efficient. The pay is pretty good for this kind of work and we get great benefits."

Talori didn't need benefits since she couldn't see any human doctors if something happened to her. She would have to go to the witch coven for help with that sort of thing. Harmony had studied mermaid physiology not long after she arrived. If she did get hurt, the witch would be able to help.

What she needed was money. Pretty good pay was reassuring.

Alyssa spent the rest of the morning teaching her about medical records. On their lunch break she pulled out the lunch box Brennan had packed for her consisting of grapes and half of a sandwich since she couldn't eat much.

She had gotten a phone last week in preparation for her job here so she could get in touch with Farryn if necessary and vice versa. She had five phone numbers in it since she didn't know many fae on a personal level. One of them was Brennan's. He was who she decided to text because he always went on his lunch about now.

To her surprise, he had already messaged her first. 'How's your first day going?'

'Very well! I am learning a lot. Alyssa, my human trainer, has been very informative so far'

'That's good. You didn't have any issues with the onboarding paperwork?'

'No. Farryn took care of most of it for me and told me where to sign. It's all taken care of'

'Elves do thrive on efficiency'

Talori had realized that for herself both from observing Castian and from what Alyssa said earlier. She would have to work hard so she wouldn't hinder the efficiency of the medical records department.

'Yes. How is your day going?'

'It's going fine. I've been taking water samples most of the morning and am waiting on results from the lab' Brennan replied.

Talori had been around him long enough to know why they took water samples. He cared about the ocean more than any non-merfolk fae she had ever met. It was one of the many things she appreciated about him.

She looked forward to the day that they would be able to officially put that think tank together to help benefit the ocean. She was certain that with all of them working together that they would be able to come up with some sort of solution that would help but her kingdom and the neighboring coral reef.

Zale would be so proud of her! She knew quite a bit about conservation and marine biology now because of Brennan. She was going to be able to use that knowledge to help the subjects of her kingdom.

No more sitting around uselessly making pearl necklaces for her! She planned to be actively involved in helping her brother once she made it home.

He wouldn't believe it if he could see where she was now. Neither of them ever would have imagined her working in a human hospital even if it was run by fae. She wished more than anything that she could tell him about it. Imagining the look on his face made her smile, albeit sadly.

Talori missed Zale. She thought it would get better with time but, if anything, it seemed to be getting worse.

She enjoyed the time she was spending here and all the new things she was experiencing but she wished he was here to experience them with her. Or at the very least that she could tell him about them in real time.

Having a cell phone that connected to the seafloor would be wonderful.. She was sure her brother would think so too if he knew what a cell phone was.

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