I smiled at him as I did it. He just looked at me in confusion. He stretched his hands out further. Clearly, he wanted me to give him my hands. I was not sure about that. It seemed a bit dangerous. Sighing, I allowed him my left hand. I needed my right hand to hold my gun. When I put my hand in his, he brought it to his mouth and chomped on it. He broke the skin and began licking at the blood. When he swallowed it, I frowned. It did not seem like the others noticed. "Hey! This merfolk just bit me!" I said. It was a bad experience. They looked my way in shock. My hand did not hurt a lot, but I did feel some pain. At that very moment, my whole body glowed gold. After that, we could see that my hand was totally healed. I backed off and said "Be careful from now on. The gold scale tribe can heal, but they others can't. Stay away if they are not offering anything." It was not something I would be doing again. "None of the younglings will bite you. I can assure you of that." came a voice from behind me. I just spun around and aimed my gun at the gold merman. "Did you just speak out!?"
We could not understand how this happened. I just had to come out and ask how it was powerful. "Our people have the power to heal, but also to take in the strengths of others we meet. Once I had your essence, I could speak to you." he explained. "Why did you bite David!?" Dolan asked, still training his gun on him. He smiled wide and said "My matron had delegated the task of diplomacy to you. We knew that the 3 of you fancy the company on males, although David is fine with both." "How do you know that!?" Corey demanded. I just sighed. "There's all sorts of merfolk here that can read minds. I bet you guys were thinking of making out with other boys or more at least once while idling around here." Both of their cheeks went bright red at that. Bullseye. "Now that I can understand you, we can do diplomacy between us." he said. I said "Oh. We're not ready for diplomacy yet. We are explorers of this planet. Our leaders are not here, and we don't have to permission or rank to make any deals." The merman diplomat frowned. "When will we be able to do any diplomacy?"
Xenophobia was rife throughout the Solari due to the human supremacist indoctrination. I had no doubt that, if they knew these boys were gay, they also knew that Dolan and Corey were both very willing and able to murder them at any moment. It probably was a pressing concern that they make some deal with us. I bowed my head and said "Like I said, we don't know anyone that can do diplomacy. We can ask our leaders if they will send someone to you later, but that would take time. We're going to go for today. Maybe we'll be back tomorrow." I then grabbed they boys and dragged them off. As we got a decent distance away, I stopped. "Now that they can speak our language, we definitely should report it." I said. " Of course we have to report it!" Corey said. Dolan added "Not reporting something like this would be treason." I could agree with that. When we made the report. They seemed to be much more chill that I expected. They would send a diplomat and a missionary over to us. "Should I ask them about the rubies and pearls?" I asked. They gave me the go ahead.
