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She had been silently minding her own business…
Suspecting nothing, and expecting a completely normal day…
When the letters and documents had started ticking in…
Tons of them.
And then the phone calls.

- Yes hello?
- Am I talking to the coelacanth?
- … Ehm yes… Well I am a mermaid really… but yes my tail is that of a coelacanth…
- It is time for the congress of the extinct species to gather.
- Ok? And what does this have to do with me?
- We need you to lead it.
- … No. You really don't.

At this point she was swimming about trying to get all their laminated papers in order.
But they just kept coming.
If this thing had assured her of one thing, it was to stay as far away as possible from leading that congress.

- So what was the grand plan, You figured you would annoy me into doing it? Ocean pollution is generally frowned upon you know. Maybe think before you laminate?
- Your species is the oldest of the organisation.
- Yeah, well that shouldn’t matter anymore. My species was rediscovered. Frankly I should be disqualified, and I certainly shouldn't lead the meeting.
- Yes, but we would like you to tell us how you managed to come back.
- What do you mean, “manage to come back”? We weren’t gone in the first place! It is not as if I could tell you of how we “ outsmarted the humans”, everyone thought we disappeared in the late Cretaceous period! And would you stop dropping documents at me, I saw them the first time!

Stunned silence.

- Look… if you absolutely want me there, I will come… but maybe get someone whose species is actually extinct to lead the whole thing.
- … The meeting starts at–
- Yes… I have received at least 15 flyers stating when and where the whole thing is…
- …
- Ok… if I come, will you stop the documents?
- …
- Great. I will see you there.

Description
She had been silently minding her own business…
Suspecting nothing, and expecting a completely normal day…
When the letters and documents had started ticking in…
Tons of them.
And then the phone calls.

- Yes hello?
- Am I talking to the coelacanth?
- … Ehm yes… Well I am a mermaid really… but yes my tail is that of a coelacanth…
- It is time for the congress of the extinct species to gather.
- Ok? And what does this have to do with me?
- We need you to lead it.
- … No. You really don't.

At this point she was swimming about trying to get all their laminated papers in order.
But they just kept coming.
If this thing had assured her of one thing, it was to stay as far away as possible from leading that congress.

- So what was the grand plan, You figured you would annoy me into doing it? Ocean pollution is generally frowned upon you know. Maybe think before you laminate?
- Your species is the oldest of the organisation.
- Yeah, well that shouldn’t matter anymore. My species was rediscovered. Frankly I should be disqualified, and I certainly shouldn't lead the meeting.
- Yes, but we would like you to tell us how you managed to come back.
- What do you mean, “manage to come back”? We weren’t gone in the first place! It is not as if I could tell you of how we “ outsmarted the humans”, everyone thought we disappeared in the late Cretaceous period! And would you stop dropping documents at me, I saw them the first time!

Stunned silence.

- Look… if you absolutely want me there, I will come… but maybe get someone whose species is actually extinct to lead the whole thing.
- … The meeting starts at–
- Yes… I have received at least 15 flyers stating when and where the whole thing is…
- …
- Ok… if I come, will you stop the documents?
- …
- Great. I will see you there.