The small fish had swum so fast away, anywhere, away from those terrible jaws. The Blue Woman laughed, a bubble laugh, and turned around to find herself foursquare in the face, and teeth and maw of a great monster looking direct into her.
Drawing her sword high up, she pushed it to strike the big monster fish in the teeth, but it came on and showed its teeth to bite her in two pieces. The sword was hit on the scaley fish and made no impression. Then the fish closed its jaws about her and was only stopped in its feast by the helm of her, which, in which the teeth could make no dint. Held there in its mouth the Blue Woman had time to think.
Now I am all at sea, I shall not come to be with my beloved, the Blue Knight, more, woe is me, I am lost. At least my helm is lost.
Then she untied the chin strap that it held in place and leaving the fish to chew up it, the helm. Standing apart she knew not, in the sea, all at sea.
Once a Mer-Person swam past and was nearby swimmimg, into the fishes mouth when they saw the trouble the fish had in its mouth. They patted the great monster on the snout and slowly reaching an arm into its mouth, took out the battered helm and brought it out, took it out and looked to check on the tooth marks, then giving it to the Blue Woman once more on her head. Now come with me now Blue Person and leave this fish to its time in these weed forests wherein it belongs, come.
The they turned away and the Blue Woman must follow, walking the floor of the sea as her armour was heavy enough. When they came to a cave, it was a cave in a rocky place like a cave or caves. Into them the Mer-Person went, part fish, part person.
I am following, I shall follow, she followed.
Now, yet now, she was with the Mer-person in the cave, which was greater inside than out. All the people of the Mer were there, and they all were around the sides of a great cave in the middle the Blue Woman stood.
Why are you sticking our big fishes with your sword, they said, and she replied all the story of the fisherfolk and their worries.
That is not it, not it at all, said the Mer-People. What it is, is far more badder, like a bad thing complete, they were not speaking the language well. The is trouble here in our sea, is the stuff that is flying down from your world to make strangulation upon our lives. If you people of the air are not wanting a thing then it is into the sea with it, and everyone is happy, but not us, as it is making the water dirty and killing all the plants and life and fishes and snakes and cephalopods or some cuttle fishish and sea worms and great whales and small shrimps and eels and dophlins, both big and small, and fish of all colours and shapes and……
Stop! I get the picture, cried the Blue Woman, don’t go on.
But the Mer-People did go on.
The fish who once went to school are now much confused and their education has been disrupted, just like with the pandemic. They are becoming uneducated confused fish. Once they knew which way to go and so they went, together. Now they go this way and that way and cannot find each other or find themselves in the least.
The Whales cannot hear because of the great noises to sing, nor can the turtles spit out the plaztic stuff and they become dead and we cannot save, even as we try.
And if we are to go away, why then so shall we all, as a healthy world depends upon a healthy sea.
Hmm, I see this is a trouble, can you not put the rubbish in a basket? Asked the Blue Woman
I don’t think you’ve quite grasped the scale of the problem, said on Mer-Person, of whom the Blue Woman could not tell if they were like unto a man or unto a woman, but that they were handsome.
Come with me and she did. When arrived, they came to a mountain of rubbish upon the floor greater than a great castle. This then is a tiny small part of the problem. As they watched a dark water came drifting from the mountain and each fish was made crazy in its path.
This is indeed a great and worthy quest, spoke the Blue Woman, Let me now to thinking.
Then she roamed the seas and oceans.
The Guardians of the Cave 