She hovered a little closer to the ground though her feet never touched. She watched the ground beneath them suspiciously as they spoke.
"I don't know. Mermaids just kinda creep me out. They're not even cool like giant squid-- which are real! I did a report in the fifth grade on squid and the teacher docked me down when I said giant squid were real and wanted to fail me just because they hadn't been rediscovered yet. No one ever believes me about these things."