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Weekly Contest #300
"Mama! Papa!" "Trini?" Suddenly, a beautiful mermaid appeared from behind a curtain of larimar stones, her brown dreadlocks billowing behind her. "Trini, my dear, what's wrong?" The crying child collided into her mother's arms, her eyes puffy and red. "It's Amoye and Akilah!" she sobbed, "They're going to a party on the Bonaire Reef, and they said I can't come because I'm too small!" Princess Trini was the youngest of King Adile and Queen Calypso's fourteen children. The others were decades older than her and had developed stronger lungs...
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