“Where am I?” The wind blows and the sky echoes yet she almost feels safe despite the strange, unfamiliar place she has woken up in.

Yesterday she had fallen off a dock, today she wakes up covered by grainy sand and new surroundings. Had she drowned? Where is she now?

She saw a group of people walking in the distance and went to move their way until she realized her feet didn’t move the way she had moved them just yesterday.

She looked down at her legs, completely covered by sand. She reached down and began to push the sand off her legs, all at once, until her hand hit something wet.

“What?”

She looked down, was this real life? A tail, in place of legs. She went to scream but covered her mouth and just then saw the crowd in the distance noticing her, they looked her way and started to gain a faster speed.

She dove forward, desperately pulling herself through the sand by her hands, heart racing, adrenaline rushing, she looked back to see their hands pointing abruptly, yelling shockingly “Mermaid!”

She felt her fingertips hit the water quickly enough to pull herself in. The water hit her tail and it felt natural, even though this was in no way what she once knew. For now, she was safe, the same question remained, “where am I?”