In time, Solanna the seal maiden got used to her new world.
Slowly, she learned how to walk like a girl
and how to talk, though her voice remained uncommonly high.
The fisherman taught her how to cook,
though she still preferred to eat her fish raw,
and loved to each bowl after bowl of seagrass,
and would sometimes eat a wriggling eel by biting its head off first,
and then swallowing it down whole.
You could see it rolling around in her belly for ages after.
Because of these tricks, though to Solanna they weren't tricks,
only the proper way to eat, the children around were fascinated by her.