My pet rams into the boat, smashing it into pieces before swallowing them all. Within minutes the sea is clear again, the wreckage sunk to the bottom and not even a drop of blood to dirty the waters. Some may call my methods cruel, but frankly I think a quick death is better than the slow drowning the others usually subject them to. I kiss her for a job well done and she nuzzled against me before we left.

We swim back down, passing the others while they scavenge the boat's remains for anything worthwhile, some of them looking at me bewildered. I wait till I've left them far behind before I allow myself a bit of a smug smile.

It's funny to think how they called me a disgrace of a mermaid, not only was my singing horrible, but I was doing it ON PURPOSE too! I can tell some of them have already caught on at this point, but their pride won't let them screech the way I do.

The sailors aren't stupid. We've coexisted for thousands of years now, and they know our ways far too well. Of course sticking to the same old methods isn't going to work anymore. I watched them since I was a child, they'd simply pass on perfectly content to hear the melody from afar, sometimes they'd even condescendingly ask for an encore.

Then one day I stumbled upon the book "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" and the "Vogons" in the book gave me an idea... Everyone can ignore a sweet melody, especially after hearing it so many times, but few can ignore a sound so horrible it makes your ears bleed, and now I think I've set a new record.

But I'm not so arrogant to think my methods are fool proof. They'll probably just get something to plug their ears for a few minutes from now on and that'll be the end of it. I can only screech for so long before my throat hurts.

Some of my sisters have completely given up on our little world at this point, considering our way of living archaic and barbaric. I heard one screaming "Even the orcs have joined civilization at this point and if you ask me, they're better for it! While they created flying boats, we barely managed to grasp reading and writing! THAT'S AN EMBARRASSMENT! Not Lydia actually trying something new and SUCCEEDING at it too!" before she left us about a year ago. I wonder how she's doing...

Some say I'm proof that she was wrong, that we'll go back to our glory days if we try experimenting, but I disagree. Our way of living has long since become completely inefficient and dangerous, especially now that the prey can fight back to the point we have to make sure they're unarmed before we do anything.

The united world has already given us the offer to join it and some of our sisters have even come back on a vacation to visit their old homes before going back again. They're clearly much happier with their new life then they ever were in this abyss...

I plan to stick around for another year or so until I find out how I can bring my sweet pet with me and I'll be gone soon after. I'll miss this place, but I still have quite a long life ahead of me and I plan to spend it exploring the world's land and oceans until I find a new place to call home. Who knows I might even meet with some of my sisters along the way.