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"That’s not what I was saying"

"I know I just feel like an idiot I could have tiot out of the hospital"

Right then I fell a little bit harder for him His certainty that Moku would recover was exactly what I needed to hear

"But then you’ll be gone, right? Disappearing into the sunset with Kona all over again"

I was a little surprised he’d brought up Kona--especially without so much as a flash of the jealousy I was used to from him I didn’t want to upset Mark, but at the saain "We’ll stick around for a while,okay"

"So, you’re definitely planning on staying with hi into the pack of M&Ms he’d bought When it was open, he fished around for a few seconds, then handed me five blue ones

"Yes" Why did it suddenly make me so uncomfortable to admit that?

He nodded, then turned his head so I couldn’t see his eyes "So, is he, like, a mermaid too?"

"They’re called mermen but no, he isn’t He’s a selkie"

"A selkie?" Mark turned back to me, a confused look on his face "You ends?"

"It’s a little s"

"They’re real?"

"You’d be surprised what I’ve run into under the surface Legends are filled with real creatures--at least the ones in the sea, anyway"

"Huh" He shook a bunch of M&Ms into his palm and then tossed the It’s just weird"