@Kelpies, let me know if there's anything that needs to be changed! I was thinking that maybe she has some kind of suspicion that @saentiel's character is also a water creature, but it's up to you.
I'm totally looking forward to my character being eaten by mermaids already.. he is a terrible person.
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening