"this summer was really long and difficult. i don't know how much you know about an inheritance, but there several different kinds. when i turned seventeen i got mine. it was a crrature inheritance and i had no idea i was going to be getting it, father never told me and he had forbidden mother to, even though it came from her blood. at the very top of my family tree, see, are full and half blooded sirens. so on the night of my birthday all of my DNA burned away to be replaced with the new DNA that gives me the ability to change underwater. it was agonizing and it had felt like i was on fire and my lungs had felt like sandpaper and i had had to crawl to my bathtub to get any relief. I had to spend a month in the pond on my property after words so that i wouldn't die, and then only after that was i able to change back and walk again. i didn't have an support the whole time and i was sent away when i emerged from the pond. father couldn't even look at me he was so ashamed. i was wandering the streets of wizard london before Blaise found me and brought me home with him. his mother had had some family that had the same inheritance, so she had no problem helping me figure things out, and now, every few days i have to come to the lake for a swim so that i don't dry up." he paused then and took a deep breath. the next part he was going to say would most certainly scare the other boy away.