"Then I believe you should stay here. If she never sees you, she'll kill him instead, and you'll be free of all of this." Yasmin said, her voice matter-of-fact, making Viola turn to glare at her, and Yasmin added,
"Oh, come on, isn't that exactly what any sensible mermaid should want here? We no longer have the Child of the Sea because his ancestors killed Azmira, never even allowed her to give birth to a generation of them, and then we became their prey. I'm sorry, but I believe they all deserve to suffer, and we should leave them to whatever mercy the Sea Goddess and Sea Witch sees fit to give."
Viola stopped swimming upward, floating in place, arms and legs stilling as she pulled her hand free from Yasmin's grip. She couldn't help but notice how much her cousin resembled her own mother, Natasha, who had also believed that whatever she thought and did was right, that it was protecting the people she loved, even when it left real damage in its wake.
