#I don't know whether z is also a mer or not so I left it up for you to decide ^u^

[silent-hero-archive]

"I told you not to get near the hooks, didn't I? Now look what happened to you."

Link gave an indignant flick of his tail, but otherwise stayed still so Zelda could dig the sharp object out of his palm. If it weren’t for that he might have splashed her for chiding him so; he wasn’t a hatchling and had long since left the kelp beds, and if he needed mothering from anyone it definitely wouldn’t be from her.