I nodded again.
     “Not everyone turns sixteen on the night of the Goddess Moon you know,” he said as he sat down beside me on the sand.”You are a very special girl Lola Price and the Goddess has noticed; she wishes to give you a gift.”
     Well no one had ever said I was special 'cept maybe my momma and daddy but parents always say stuff like that so it doesn’t mean near as much as when it comes from a magical fish man so I think it kind of went to my head a bit and I do like gifts, so I was curious.
     “A gift,” I said cautiously, “what kind of gift?”
    “Oh something very special,” he said with another dazzling smile. “But first lets have some...

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