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man and
mermaid in human history."
Mary coughed and then spoke in a bitter voice. "It doesn't seem
particularly legal or ethical to do this to us without asking first."
"It's too late to worry about ethics," Doctor Eckert said. "As to the
law, on this island, I'm the law; the government ceeded the atoll to me
personally a decade ago. What's done is done! Right now, you need to
know a bit more about what's happened to your bodies so you can face the
future, right?"
"I'll admit I'm curious," I said.
"You're half fish, half person," Rika Sakurai said. Over the month or so that you
were out after the fish got you, your body has merged with that of the
fish. The changes aren't over yet, but the big changes are done. Your
circulatory systems merged the fastest, within minutes of the time the
fish tried to swallow you. Your skeletal systems merged more slowly, and
your nervous systems will take the longest to finish joining to that of
the fish."
"Do you mean to say we were out for a month after the fish got us?" Mary
asked, Rika's voice ti
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