Silver Linings and Dark Waters — Episode 4

the human had only said it casually. Maybe humans were simply a species that exaggerated when they spoke meanwhile back on earth he still hadn't replied maybe suddenly complimenting someone's looks when you barely knew them really was rude my name is elena i'm 23. i'm about as ordinary as a person can be i went to ordinary schools attended an ordinary college and after graduation

ordinary office job if there was anything unusual about me it was how embarrassingly weak i was for a pretty face i liked men who looked almost too beautiful to be real but guys who look like that usually have more than enough people chasing them i'd finally worked up the courage to make a move on a crush once unsurprisingly it went nowhere i'd already decided to delete siel's contact and

forget about him then the next day i saw that he'd messaged me in the middle of the night thank you for saying that but my hair only has one color and it's the most boring color black my tail only has one color too it isn't brighted at all it's just plain silver no other merfish wants to come near me i'm not beautiful at all i'm actually considered ugly you're a very

very kind human can i talk to you more often he didn't seem to be role-playing at all he believed he was a merfolk this had to be some kind of mental health issue sure we can talk whenever you want i asked him another question so among merfolk only brightly colored hair and tails are considered beautiful yes i'm just an ugly merfish his reply came almost instantly