A Mer-Curious Blackmail

After exposing a kidnapping ring and arresting all involved, all I want to do is finish my degree... my utterly useless degree.

Self-esteem at an all-time low, my mistakes are plaguing my nightmares as my new stardom lands me in another compromising situation. Why?

Because I'm being blackmailed. Blackmailed!

And if that's not enough, even the Empress demands an audience, personally assigning me two new cases and threatening my head if I don't ‘meet or exceed expectations.’ I miss the days when that's what was written on my report cards, not an nearly impossible bar I have to clear just to survive.

I suppose I could take the cowards way out and leave the ocean but... What about Krill? What the hell was I thinking?

I'm Nora Donovan, the monster that betrays those I care about and the fool just trying survive and graduate Arctic Academy.