Monica, now Pearl, hated her new life. Clearly being a mermaid was overrated. Or rather a mermaid is an aquarium and on display. Sure, men admired her for her beauty and even some girls shot jealous stares and annoyed pouts but it quickly got old. The stares were lecherous and if she covered her bare breasts they jeered and shouted insults. As if the women's were not enough. They treated her like a piece of meat - or rather a piece of fish - and acted as if she was deaf or too stupid to understand them. They ogled at her in the most humiliating way. Sometimes some paid more than a simple extra to grab pieces of sushi to feed her by hand and feel her fill plump lips upon their foul fingers. A few used the proximity to fondle her irresistible breasts. She had bit the first in pure disgust but Madame Illusia had punished her with a rod and derived her of food over three days, over being "so ungrateful towards a paying customer". She sang for them and sprawled lasciviously upon a fake rock that was in a decor just as kitsch. Madame Illusia rewarded her with seafood Pearl now found absolutely yummy. She also threw to her pearls, glass beads and other sparkly items that to her shame found impossible to resist, play with and giggle at. And she knew some of them were just plastic! And part of her, her mermaid part, revelled in the attention men gave her. They were so stupid! All of them! And their women so foolishly spiteful! She just had to sing and show her body - the upper one , at least - to see them show how moronic they were! Pearl was ashamed of these thoughts when she thought right again. It made her ashamed and eager to get out of this life she was in. Yes, being a mermaid was really, really overrated.
So one day, as she was in the right state of mind, she pleaded with Madame Illusia. She begged her to transform her back, to allow her to be normal again. Or even to join Damon as a mare, if it came to it. She cried, desperate to stop being considered a tease when she didn't want to, or had sometimes done nothing at all. At this, Madame Illusia frowned. This mermaid made her earn loads of money. She was a real cash cow for sure. Should she really deprive herself of such an amazing money-bringer?