In retrospect, given the sort of world he lived in, it should have been obvious that high school was not going to end with him walking across a stage and collecting a diploma, but instead with him falling into a mad scientist's portal and being transported to an alternate dimension.
It's the sort of thing that happens to mutants.
Lev is such a fan of petting the hot mermaid.
It occurs to him that it has been several years since he got to pet anyone and he really missed it.
When his character emerges from the water, he taps a few times. Sky. Sky. Sky.
“...have a name?”
"Lev." He ponders whether to call himself 'Lev Stark' or 'Lev Aarons' and decides that mermaids are probably unfamiliar with the concept of surnames. "Your name is Sky?"
"It meant 'lion' a long time ago in a different language, but it's just a name in English."
"A lion is." He thinks about it. "A lion is a kind of animal. Lion eats other animals and they have soft hair like mine, but all over their bodies, and the males have it much longer on their heads. They live in groups on land that's covered in grass-- do you know what grass is? Humans think of lions as being very brave."
“...eats other animals like a shark or eats other animals like a mackerel,” he asks, cautiously.
He thinks. Lions are apex predators, so... "Eats other animals like a shark."
Slight blushing!
"No, I mean-- I can't hunt my own food, but I am useful to other people and do things for them they can't do themselves, and so they feed me."
"Somehow I don't think you have much use for grantmaking at a large philanthropic foundation."
"Yeah, sorry. --The last person to feed me fed me because he had lots of extra things and I helped him figure out how to give people his things in ways that made them as happy as they could."
(He has, once again, kind of forgotten about the observing people.)
"He is one of the people with the most things of anyone in the world."
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