"Yeah," Rohan nodded as he smiled back at her and remained still, hands fisting and sitting on his hips where flesh began to turn to scale. It was seamless. There was no frill or curl-over like on the cartoon mermaids from Disney circling the waist, but he did have plenty of fin and fluke down the center back of his tail like a lion fish.
"Why wouldn't there be? The island has always been beautiful." The man paused for a minute before a look of understanding dawned upon his strong jaw.
"You're from the future where the frozen island got worse, aren't you?" He kind of point at her, wagging his finger in thought. "That never happened in my time! The island was always prosperous."