“Sky!” Deidra almost crushed her best friend’s bones with her tight hug, and this was how Skylar realised that not everything was fine with her.
“I am happy to see you too,” she smiled while quickly scanning Griffin’s face and noticing that he looked grim, so she distanced herself from her friend and asked her bluntly. “Are you guys okay?”
“Not exactly,” Griff spoke first, and Deidra shot him a warning glare. But when she turned back to Skylar, her eyes were watery.
“The trip to the sea didn’t go well, did it?” Ren sighed, and Sky bit her lip, realising the source of trouble. Their friends went to meet Deidra’s grandmother, the sea witch, to ask for her blessing for their marriage. The siren was nervous about this to begin with. The merfolk suffered a demographic crisis, and every merma
