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Before she knew it, the tide had turned [br]and Solanna had lost her sealskin.

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And not only that, now she had [br]arms and legs and feet like a girl.

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She looked around frantically[br]for her sealskin,

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couldn't see it anywhere [br]for an age,

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and then, looking out to sea, [br]she saw it, bobbing on a big breaker

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before it went under [br]and disappeared.

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She tried to swim after it, [br]but not being a seal anymore,

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she couldn't get past the waves[br]and was thrown back on the sand.

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She started to cry loud [br]pitiful wails for her mother,

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hitting her new legs and stamping [br]her new feet

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and waving her long, [br]terrible human arms

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and then she saw her mother [br]skim across the waves

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with four salmon between her teeth.

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"Mummy!"

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Solanna roared into the wind [br]and the tide, but it was useless.

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It was as her mother had told her.

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Now, she was a seal maiden.

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Alone and naked in a terrible body [br]that her mother would never recognise.

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Even her voice [br]didn't sound like her own.

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She watched her mother disappear [br]around the edge of the cliff

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and wondered, would [br]she ever see her again?

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It was dark when the fisherman [br]found the sealmaiden.

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She lay on the sand asleep [br]with seaweed in her hair

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and the sea in her dreams.

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He gathered her up and carried her[br]to his house along the shore

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and dressed her and fed her [br]and tried to make her talk.

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The seal maiden wept and sang [br]and slept through days

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and nights that seemed to go on forever.

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The fisherman watched and waited.

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He had heard of creatures [br]like her before,

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creatures that come up out of the sea

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and are stranded here among us, [br]lost and miserable.

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He was kind to the creature and [br]taught her all he could about the earth.

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At night, he could hear waves crash [br]and roll in her heart,

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louder than the waves [br]down at the shore.

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The sound of the tide[br]in her made him sad

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for he knew that this little seal maiden[br]ached to be among her own kind.

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But he was powerless to help her,

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not knowing where her sealskin was[br]or how he might find it.

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He noticed the only thing that brought [br]her out of herself was music

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so he played his fiddle for her

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and sometimes she would sing for him [br]all the songs she had learned under the waves.