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Bella didn't mean to take so long about eating her dinner. It's just that this book is really interesting. Supplemental history reading, recommended by the professor, by a different author than did their textbook, one who can really write, she'll have to find the rest of his work - and now she's one of six students left in the dining hall and it's closing. Four of them are a group of dwarves who she can only assume live in the dwarf housing; individual dwarves sometimes find their way into Harlowe and there is even one in Thatcher, but not a bunch of them. The other one's a mermaid.
Bella doesn't think the mermaid lives in Thatcher, which makes it Harlowe, but Thatcher's on the way to Harlowe from here.
She knows not to go swimming with her and this will have to do.
She goes up to the mermaid.
"Excuse me. I try not to walk around outside by myself. Are you heading towards Thatcher? Harlowe's right past it," she adds.
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subtly_artistic
"...Yes," says Jala, looking at Bella like she's talking complete nonsense, "because they're people."
subtly_artistic
"Then the problem probably has to do with humans not being around them enough to notice," says Bella, shrugging. "They don't come up and walk around and introduce themselves like you do. I wonder what the best way to distribute this information would be."
subtly_artistic
"Okay. Maybe I'll find some way to get within subtle-arts distance of a cetacean and then pretend like I discovered it. I don't really want to be famous either, but this seems pretty important."
subtly_artistic
"Is it just you guys, dolphins, and whales, or are there other marine species who are people?"
"I don't know, I don't have a list somewhere," says Jala. "I'd hate to have you go around thinking there weren't any more just because I spaced out."
subtly_artistic
"Okay, but if you think of any besides those three you can let me know, I will make a list and I will think about ways to publicize."
subtly_artistic
"That is simpler. Especially if you live in smaller groups or have more names to choose from than we do. There's at least one other Isabella at this school; I've heard somebody shouting for her and I didn't know them."