"Are you crazy, you cant do this to me!?" But the scientest only laughed at his dispare, before calling on someone to come in. A young girl came in, unlike him, not restrained, she had a solid gray tail, but the surgery seemend more recent. He camly said, "You wont be alone, why have a merman when I can have a pair?" He left the room, before she started to stur showing signed of waking up. She spotted her tail first, her eyes widening as she flicked it, shocked to find out it was hers.
Steven tried to reache out to her before rembering that he was straped down, "Are you ok?" She looked up at him, fear in her eyes, but she managed a shakey smile. "I, I guess so. Call me Rikki." She looked back at her tail, not sure what to think. She huffed, reaching to where the stitches where before wincing. "This, its real..." She said, her voice trailing off.