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You decide to use some seaweed as a nice wrap to protect your hand from the annoying effects of the Norken snail venom; ripping up a small plant and using it like a bandage. You get to work, and quickly harvest the rest of the snails you need, making a mental note of where you need to return them...
Only after your work and as you begin to return to the surface, do you realize that you did actually disrupt the ecosystem. You blush in embarrassment as you shake the bit of kelp off. You suppose that's why laws and practices and the like exist; but instead of enforcement, moreso kept by people being told the best practice and socially conditioned to enforce it themselves. As a kid, you can laugh it off, but as an adult? Yeah, you get why they take it so seriously. It was still just one little plant, but if everyone ripped up one little seaweed...
As you surface and walk back from the beach, you come across a <span class="mu-s">Slicer</span>. Suddenly, you feel excited again, and the humdrum snail harvest fades away. Wooo! You'd love a nice little snack right now!
Slicers are cheap, easygoing food stalls often installed in high traffic areas. They just have one or two fish that they caught that day, and sell off thin slices cut with a very sharp knife. While affordable to even a kid like you, you aren't supposed to get your full meals from places like this. You don't want to spoil your appetite, and they charge by the slice. But it is a way to get the taste of meat and a quick refreshment. As natural carnivores, Swall don't eat much else other then fish, invertebrates, a few ocean-dwelling mammals, and some sea sponges. You're dripping wet and carrying your scout uniform, and the stall attendant barely acknowledges you.
<span class="mu-b">"What do you have today?"</span>
"Bluefin, and Chordfish."
<span class="mu-b">"Give m a slice of the Bluefin!"</span>
"Sure."
You fish out your money and hold out your hands, in which the man will plop your finished slice of lunchmeat right in your hands straight from the blade. You're very excited for your snack!
