The problem is that I wasn't brave enough to ask him outright, so I was looking for courage in the alcohol he conveniently brought.

"In fact you're even more pitiful, if I'm not mistaken, the only reason you ended up in jail, was for trusting a prostitute from the port..." Amanda started mocking, but then she started to get interested, or rather the Mermaid began to wonder why someone would act like this.

"But you never told me your story with the prostitute, I always thought you were stupid enough to accept a sex crime, but if you were a virgin when you came to jail that shouldn't have happened..."

Lucas didn't answer, but in one gulp he finished the bottle he had in his hand and went for another.

"Come on, Maximo, it must have been a great love story, right?" Asked the mermaid more interested in the story than in hunting the sailor.

"No... I was just a whore, and I was an idiot who trusted everyone, I was only 13 and had just run away from home, so I didn't understand other people very well and this whore welcomed me as my new mother"

"In exchange for food from time to time he asked me to do some task and in order to survive I began to accept them, since I did not understand life well I thought that this was how mothers fed their children on this new island"

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"Of course I grew up and after a while, I learned that robbing people was not very normal on this new island... So I ended up in jail at 25 and from then on I stayed in jail until I was 31 when we escaped together"

"It wasn't a great love story, or was I wrong?" Lucas asked with a shaky voice, somewhat drunk,

"At least it seems true, admiral" Amanda said, smiling at him

"Wow, it's getting better..." Lucas muttered, "...or am I getting more and more drunk"

"What happened at the Las Cuevas tavern, Amanda?" Fortunately or unfortunately for him, he finally mustered up the courage to ask Amanda, the question that had been in his heart for so long.

"I only know that I slept, to wake up in a slaver's cage, headed for a coal mine"

"Mmmm... Let's see let me think about it" Amanda said with some haste, the mermaid took her faceless head with her claws, as if trying to gather strength to find the memories in Amanda's mind.

Lucas knew how it worked, what was in front seemed like a reflection caused by his mind, but in reality it was the reflection of Amanda, the siren connected with the person reflected and looked at his memories to hunt the prey, although normally the process they do before attacking the victim.

So the mermaid knew everything about Amanda, but nothing about Lucas, save Amanda's memories of Lucas himself.

"Oh I remember…" Amanda said, swimming happily through the water, her legs wagging like a tail, just like a fish would.

"But if you want me to tell you, you have to jump into the water... I mean... come swim with me" Amanda said with a smile on her face.