Excerpt of Fish out of Water
“Everything looks good,” I hear the doctor telling James in the corner of the room. “There was one irregularity, though.”
I suck in my breath, waiting for the doctor to scare away my benefactor- and the man I still need to convince loves me.
“Yes?” James asks, alert and ready.
But no ready to find out I somehow have a pair of fin hidden in my feet. Or scales lying under my skin. Or a pair of retractable gills Cerce somehow made not there when I needed them.
But how far could her magic have banished them, really?
“But her blood level is showing a particularly high omega-3.”
“You mean, like the vitamin?”
The doctor nods. “She has 3.6-fold higher percentage of it in her blood than found in most adults.”
“What? Why?”
Shrugging, the doctor glances back at me, and then to James. “Does she eat a lot of fish?”
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