"Noel dear, where have you been?"
Noel smiled at his grandmother and spun around, "The surface."
Grandmother Cordelia frowned but she did not say anything, instead she gestured her smaller grandchildren to gather around her.
"It's time for bedtime stories my, loves," she said with a soft smile on her face.
Noel sat far away from the little group and admired his other jewels, while listening to his grandmother.
"Once there was a princess mermaid, who longed to go to the surface," Cordelia began her story and glanced at Noel, Noel knew where this story was going to go, "She wanted to see the human world but she was not of age yet so she had to wait and just listen about the outside world from her sisters, the other princesses."
"She was finally of age and was allowed to go and see the
