“ I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours. Esther Dalseno
“ Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human.. Esther Dalseno
“ It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind. Esther Dalseno
“ Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts. Esther Dalseno
