Chapter 86: Humans Come Up With The Strangest Things

Talori had felt off when she wasn't able to talk to Brennan much after becoming much busier. It was similar to how she felt when she hadn't been able to talk to him at all. 

Originally she had thought that it was mostly because she was lonely and didn't have enough to do but that clearly wasn't it because she had plenty of friends now. It was Brennan specifically that she missed talking to. 

Talking to other fae wasn't the same. So she had been ecstatic when he proposed coming to visit for a week. There were so many things she wanted to do with him since they would have more time but she had to run the itinerary past Zale since he was technically here on official business.

That was fine. She had wanted to show him around more of the kingdom anyway. And beyond. She wanted to go out to the coral reef with him and get his expert opinion on the state of things as a marine biologist. 

Brennan had spent plenty of time in similar reefs closer to Florida before and he knew how to tell if things were healthy or not. He had brought some equipment with him so he could take water samples to analyze once he was back at work but most of what he would be assessing could be done with the naked eye or a camera. 

Zale knew she had snuck out countless times at this point but he still didn't want her to go out to the reef alone. He was sending Beck with them when they went. That had been decided in advance. 

That showed how worried he was. He couldn't go himself so he sent the merman he trusted most to go in his place. 

They were going to do that tomorrow. Today would be focusing on things they could see in the kingdom that he hadn't seen before since Zale had a lot more meetings he hadn't been able to get out of and had only come to the training grounds between them to briefly blow off steam. 

Talori knew her brother wanted to talk to him about ocean affairs more personally. He had scheduled time for that later in the week. A proper merking always had a lot to do. 

King Ren had grown too comfortable with the state of affairs. Things were largely running on their own the way they always had but the ocean at the start of his rule and the ocean now were vastly different and required new solutions. 

Zale knew that. It was why he was so good at his job. Even the nobles who were obviously still wary of him had nothing to complain about.

She was very proud of him. He had accomplished his goal after so many decades of working toward it and was doing so much to help their kingdom already. He was an excellent merking. 

He was still working on being an excellent husband since he hadn't wanted a wife in the first place but she had steered him straight. He seemed to be on better terms with Aila these days. She seemed a bit happier at least. 

A rather private mermaid, she didn't often show her emotions on her face. But Talori could usually tell when something was off about those around her.

She had thought Aila was lonely and it seemed that she was right since things had improved after she told Zale to spend more time with her. She was glad she was able to do something in that situation even if it wasn't much.

Talori liked Aila. She had been her first friend after coming home. Now she could count all of Zale's men aside from Beck (though at least he had stopped calling her Princess) in some degree. 

Some were friendlier than others but all who were taking her English lessons talked to her more than they absolutely had to. That was a stark difference from before. 

Nerio was perhaps the friendliest of her brother's mermen but she had known from watching the two of them spar over the years that it was simply the sort of fae he was. He had only held himself back before out of a misguided sense of respect.

Talori wished that she would have gotten friendly with them sooner. Her childhood would have been a lot less lonely.

She supposed it didn't truly matter now. She had plenty of friends both here and on the surface. And now her very best friend was here with her so she had absolutely nothing to complain about. 

Something had been off about Brennan on the ride over and when they got to the palace but it was so slight she could hardly tell. Was he tired from the boat ride? Was work piling up on him? He hadn't said anything that was bothering him but that wasn't really his style. 

He was always so easygoing. The only thing that really got to him was dealing with humans too much. 

Talori understood his hatred of them. They had taken everything from him hundreds of years ago and he never fully recovered. Even now he said he didn't fit in with his kind, though he seemed to fit in perfectly well to her. 

He could fit in anywhere. But she supposed that was because he didn't feel that he belonged anywhere. He had spent most of his life restlessly roaming. 

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She was glad he planned to stay in Florida indefinitely because of what they were working on together. She didn't know what she would do if she lost contact with him completely. 

Harmony was the only one in the world with a matching long-range communication device. It was unlikely he would be able to get any witch to replicate one for him if he moved away. And if he did…she wouldn't get to have him visit like this either. 

Talking to him over video call was nice but it wasn't the same as seeing him right in front of her. She had to take full advantage of it while she could. 

She reached out to take his hand and lead him to their next destination since he was swimming slowly and she could help him keep up. "Come on! The farms are this way." 

Brennan let out a small laugh. "Am I going too slow for you?"

"…maybe a little. Sorry."

"Don't worry about it. I'm faster than you on land."

That was painfully true. Talori did know how to maneuver in her wheelchair but she wasn't very fast. She couldn't do it in small spaces either because of how much backing up and so on was required so she typically didn't do it either at his apartment or the witch coven. 

At least the hospital was made for wheelchairs. She could handle things on her own there and in public places with enough space but he usually pushed her when they were together because things were faster that way. 

"And in the sky," Talori said. "I can't fly at all unless you're carrying me."

"That's true but don't feel too bad. It's impossible to fly without wings unless you're on an airplane or in a helicopter. And let me tell you, those things are incredibly uncomfortable when you have wings!" Brennan shook his head in disgust. 

She had heard his complaints about furniture not made for fairies before. Airplane seats were probably a lot worse because there wasn't much space on planes according to the movies she had watched. 

Talori had no desire to go on an airplane based on his assessment of them. He had been on them every time he moved since it was better to be more uncomfortable for less time than it was to be slightly less uncomfortable for more time while driving. She could understand that logic. 

"What is an airplane and a helicopter?" Seaton asked curiously. 

Talori had nearly forgotten he was accompanying them on this tour. He hadn't said anything in quite a while. 

"Modes of transportation humans invented that allow them to travel quickly through the air. They're like big metal birds people can fit inside," Brennan explained. 

"Humans come up with the strangest things," Seaton said in wonder. 

"Indeed they do." 

Strange but wonderful things a lot of the time. Talori had learned so much about what humans did both good and bad while she was on the surface. Yes, they were destroying the planet, but they had made some truly fascinating stuff!

Her fae friends were doing their best to undo some of the damage as guardians of nature. They lived in two worlds. She had too for a while so in total she had learned to live in three different societies. Merfolk, surface fae, and human. It had certainly been a learning curve for a while up there but she had loved it, inconveniences and homesickness aside. 

Now that she had lived up there, sometimes she was homesick for the surface. She missed her friends, movies, certain activities, and some of the food. It was why she had asked Brennan to bring so much back for her. 

Talori wished that there was a way to make TV waterproof. She would love to show her friends movies instead of just acting things out with figurines. 

Brennan said that entertainment and food were two of the few things humans did right and she was inclined to agree with him.. Those were two of her favorite things about the surface.

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