Mindy narrowed an eye as he changed directions towards the new girl at the gate. A romance that was not to be. Fate destined him towards another. She thought about how that could be a dramatic ending of a story and shrugged it off. There was still the parched looking merman under the tree and two, twins?, walked past him towards, somewhere. Putting her nose back into her book, she waited for either it or real life to get interesting.