Another day comes... Mostly kept myself in bed with these gills to breathe... occasionally and brought food to eat and my bedpans get changed... Gotta tell my mom I love her some more for all that she's dealing with... Speaking of which *knock knock* came from her room's door.
I said unenthusiastically "Come in..." and the door opened.
My mom said "Dawn, I've found someone whose been willing to help you out with your... issue." She walked in along with some woman in a suit. The woman was very slim, sleek, and professional and I was getting the feeling like I was about to get carted off to some dissection table.
The woman said "Hello, I'm Jess from the department of magical beings. We're here to help anyone affected by all the new magic, and couldn't imagine the struggles you must be going through being a mermaid in a landlocked part of the country." she paused for a second and seeing my unenthusiastic look on my face said "You may think that being a mermaid may be rare, but there have been enough mermaids around that we've been able to start a special project. Off the coast of california someone had the idea to make an underwater hotel. Said hotel ended up flooding and was abandoned, but considering you mermaids can easily breathe underwater and need water to breathe we thought that we could renovate the flooded hotel as a sort of lodging for mermaids. I was wondering if you'd be interested?"
"Is there a point?" I asked
"Excuse me?" Jess asked back
"I'm just going to be stuck underwater... I'm guessing there'll also be scientists figuring us out... and it's not like I could even do much more than I do right now."
My mother said "Now Dawn this is irre-"
"Mam, it's ok. We get this a lot. Heck we estimate that there may be double or triple the amount of magically evolved individuals that are afraid of coming out. While yes I can't say there'll be a lot to do initially, but there will be some educational opportunities with marine biologists to help make discoveries and take data from the sea. Plus as technology develops with magic I'm sure there'll be all sorts of electronics that'll work underwater... although maybe they wont be electronic exactly...?"
I sighed and said "Alright, I'll go... so how exactly am I going to be getting to this flooded hotel?"