Several tides later, the restless state of Atlantis' had eased and Merfolks all alike were doing their best to return to their previous way of life before the Dreaders' siege.
However, things couldn't be as they used to be, no matter what was done. Traumatized, victims of the war were unable to go back to the ways they have been living before. More so, It was hard for family members to look at those that had been captured and tortured by the Dreaders in the same light as before their predicament. They showed fear, but what they felt was resentment toward the victims. To them, the victims of the dreaders' torture had been degraded into the lowest of beings, thus, they became the stigma of society.
At first, they tried as much as they could to hide this feeling of resentment under the cl
