𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      While in the dining room, Sonic looked at the sea through the large window and kept thinking about the little mermaid who saved him. The uncle, sitting at the table, tried to bring his nephew to his senses: — Sonic, think for yourself! Decent girls usually don’t swim in the ocean and save people, much less disappear somewhere unknown. — But I remember very well that that hedgehog, exactly like that one, was the one who saved me. I'm not crazy. — And you... — Yes, I take those healing pills for memory. But I still remember it, which means I’m not crazy at all. I know that. For example, uncle, have you ever seen huge fly agarics in the forest? — No. — Exactly! Because when you took that medicine, you then stopped seeing them and even forgot about it. — Hm. Or maybe the hedgehog you brought and who saved Yuki from the black forest was the same one who saved you, since you remember her so well. — Don't know. I still need to verify this. Maybe it's different, but it's just similar to her. But even if it’s not her, then I’ll go look for her... Right after I marry Sally. — But why do you need to look for her? — She saved me, and I didn’t even thank her for saving me. Not only did I not tell her Thank you, I didn’t even tell her Goodbye! Now I probably won’t sleep at night and beat myself up for it. Uncle got up from his chair and walked up to the blue hedgehog, hugging him. — Don't say that, Sonic! You don't have to suffer through all sorts of bullshit and be heartbroken because you didn't say goodbye to someone. After all, you still have your whole life ahead of you. The prince sighs heavily and turns to his uncle. — You're probably right, uncle. Yuki runs into him, interrupting their conversation and bragging about how neat he has become. — O! Look, who is this neat guy we have here? — Robotnik said smiling, squatted down and scratched the dog’s tummy. And when they looked up, they saw a naked hedgehog in front of them. — OH!!! — Uncle cried out briefly and covered his eyes with his hands so as not to look. Sonic widened his eyes and whistled to the side, without looking away. The hedgehog herself stood still and was not ashamed of her advantages. Sonic immediately slapped his cheeks with his palms, walked up to Amy, took her hand and led her along. — Let's go pick out some clothes for you. Shouldn't you walk around the castle naked? — That's it?... Can I watch it now? — Robotnik asked and removed his hands. Sonic and Amy were no longer in the room. Now it was just him and Yuki. Sonic at this time escorted Amy to the living room bedroom. — This room was previously made in case a girl was born. My parents did not know then who would be born to them. Boy or girl. Therefore, they played it safe in advance and made two bedrooms for a boy and a girl. However, I was born to them, and the girl’s bedroom had to be converted into a living room. Well, shouldn't we throw it all away? — Sonic asked with a grin. Amy laughed silently in response. The blue hedgehog opens the closet and takes out white underwear with a red T-shirt and a red long skirt. Taking all this, he hands them over to the hedgehog. — Here! Get dressed, and then come down to our dining room! Amy nodded silently to him and Sonic left the room. True, she didn’t understand why she needed to wear all this. Although many people wear clothes. Maybe that's how they do it? Usually their mermaids never had anything like this. Well, except that some female mermaids sometimes take and wear bras. Not to hide your advantages, but rather for beauty. In that case, you can't argue with them. I'll have to get dressed.

A little later — by pure coincidence

      Sonic returned to the dining room, where his uncle was already sitting at his table. A maid, the yellow hedgehog Maria, passed by. She steps over the Doberman, who lay down on the floor and decided to take a nap during breakfast. He knew that there would be no meat for breakfast today, which meant he couldn’t expect any bones. — What's for breakfast today, Maria? — Sonic asked her, and she answered: — Canned food. — Oh no! — the prince lowered his head, and then something dawned on him. — What can you do? I'm going to the store now. — No need, Your Majesty! I'll go right now if you want. What will you. — Um... First, buy three loaves of fresh bread, two large pieces of cheese and one sausage with salt. — Robotnik asked. — As usual for me! — Sonic asked. — Clear. That means three breads, two cheeses, one sausage, a bunch of sausages, hot sauce, peppers, dough and juice. — Maria wrote down a shopping list in her notebook. She took the empty basket and got ready to leave. — The chef will serve you a special dish in the meantime, if you want. Stuffed crab. — Anything, but not canned food. — Sonic asked, sat down at his table and frowned. — I hate canned food. At that moment, Amy herself had already entered the dining room through the same door, who was already dressed in what Prince Sonic had given her from the bedroom for the unborn girl. In addition to the clothes, she also found red, crystal and shiny shoes there herself and tried them on her feet. They looked like they were made of rubies. — Come in, honey! Don't be embarrassed! — the mustache beckoned her and the hedgehog approached the prince, looking at him and smiling. — O! Sonic, I really have no words. — I know, uncle. Don't take your eyes off. — Sonic replies, and Amy grinned lightly at what she heard. Robotnik stood up from his desk, lightly wrapped his hands around the hedgehog's shoulders and led her to an empty table. — I ask you to! You must be hungry? Have a seat! I hope you are comfortable. The well-fed mustache man seated the guest at the table and went to sit back at his table. Amy looked around the table and noticed the fork that was lying next to her empty plate. She mistakenly thought it was a comb and decided to comb her hair before lunch. — We don’t often have such lovely guests. — says the prince, not noticing at first what Amy was doing with the fork. However, when he noticed it later, his eyes seemed to widen in horror. Then he laughed. — No, no, no, what are you doing? — he asked her and took the fork from her hands. — This is a fork, not a comb. They eat it, not play with it. Look! — Sonic pretends to poke something invisible on an empty plate, then puts it in his mouth. The mouth closes and the hand, despite the closed mouth, pulls the fork out. — Om-Nom-nom. Like this! Do you understand? Om-Nom-nom. — Don't scold her, Sonic! Perhaps from where it came to us there are no forks. And she just doesn’t know what it is or how to use it. — the prince’s uncle reassured him. — You know, Sonic? I think that our guest will want to explore our village outside the castle. You could give her a tour. Show our sights, tell what, where, when, and how. — Are you serious? — Sonic asked a little indignantly, and his uncle began to answer a little sternly: — Certainly. In addition, do not forget that the doctor told you that you need to leave the castle more often and go out into the fresh air. — I understand, I understand. Only Amy herself won't mind? — Sonic wondered out loud and turned his questioning gaze to Amy. She thought for a moment, looking at the ceiling and nodded. — Well, that’s wonderful. — the little chubby man clapped his hands.

At the same time

      The Chef, who also looks like Robotnik, only old and with a gray mustache, looks after the kitchen and prepares soups, cereals and various delicacies all day. Now there was nothing to cook except one fish. Luckily, there were jars of canned food and pre-cooked crabs stuffed with salad on the shelf in advance. — Dad, prince Sonic wants crabs for breakfast instead of canned food. I'll go to the store for now. — Maria shouted to him from behind the door. — Okay, daughter! — tearing fish bones out of an anchovy, he shouted back to her. As usual, I threw the fish bones into a garbage barrel, and threw the boneless fish into the frying pan. — Oh! So where does this lazy guy go? SILVE-E-ER!!! — he shouted at the top of his lungs, so that the whole castle almost heard him. A white hedgehog servant in a black business suit immediately came running to him. — Silver, where have you been? Prince Sonic is starving there. Bring him, his uncle, and their guest some stuffed crabs! And quickly. — Yes Yes. Sorry. — the hedgehog answers briefly and shyly, saluting. Then he takes three plates of crabs and leaves the kitchen. — STOP!!! — the cook shouted and Silver froze. — You forgot to wash your hands! Growling through his teeth, the white hedgehog put the crabs on the table with the finished fish, washed his hands with soap at the barrel of water, dried them with a towel, again took the plates with crabs and ran. — All I have to teach this fool? — the cook grumbled to himself. He didn’t even suspect that among the stuffed crabs there was a live crab, Lomar, hiding and masquerading as stuffed crabs, who was keeping an eye on someone. After eating the salad that he covered his face with, he jumped onto the floor and crawled out of the kitchen.

***

      Silver was in a terrible hurry and ran into the dining room. — Well, finally, what took you so long? — Sonic asked getting up from his desk. Suddenly he noticed that he was running and did not look at his feet. — WATCH OUT!!! The servant did not have time to slow down when he immediately tripped over the sleeping Yuki on the floor and ran sharply forward. There is no way he can stop. Here he will either fall or hit the wall. Amy was afraid for the unfortunate servant, stood up from her chair abruptly, causing the chair to fall, and she ran to meet the white hedgehog. Silver almost fell to the floor and would have killed himself on the floor with his nose if Amy had not managed to grab him, and with him the plates of crabs, so that he would not drop them on the floor. The white hedgehog looked at the hedgehog with his golden eyes and he liked her so much. The whole background around seemed to turn pink, and the hedgehog herself sparkled with stars. Silver smiled, looking at Amy, and she thought that he was smiling at her in gratitude for her help and helped him get up. — Thank you. And this... Forgive me. I'm so clumsy. — he apologized to the hedgehog. She laughed quietly and lightly patted him on his right shoulder. — Are you not married? — Silver, do we pay you to carry food or to chat with our guests? — Robotnik turned to him. — Sorry, Sir Robotnik. — Silver apologized and put a plate of stuffed crabs on the table for everyone. — Bon appetit to all of you. — he added out loud, and before leaving, he whispered in the hedgehog’s ear. — And I wish you a bon appetit more than anyone else, because I like you. After this hedgehog left, the hedgehog straightened up her chair, sat down on it again and was a little shocked. — “What a strange guy!” — she thought about that white hedgehog. Uncle Robotnik spoke to her at that moment: — You will forgive our servant Silver, Miss Rose. He's a little weird here, sometimes he's a little mentally retarded and generally behaves like a fool. He is stupidly incapable of anything except tripping, breaking something, or giving us what we need. Amy, of course, listened to him, and then looked again at the exit. Silver just stuck his head outside the door and looked at her. He only leaned out a little more when the door creaked. Sonic and Robotnik noticed the sound. — Are you still here? — Sonic asked. — There will be no increase. Better go... Sweep the floor! — Why me again? — Silver was indignant, re-entering the dining room. — Because Knuckles has a day off today, and you are replacing him these days. Just be careful not to break anything while cleaning, otherwise we’ll kick you out of the castle with a kick in the ass and you’ll sleep on the street with the homeless like a rat. - the prince threatened. — Fine. Sorry! — the white hedgehog lowered his head and left the dining room, and Sonic only shouted at his back: — AND DON'T PEEK AGAIN!!! From hearing Sonic's threats towards Silver and how he, along with his uncle, treats this butler, she imagined herself in the place of that white hedgehog, and in the place of Sonic and Robotnik, her father, as well as the brothers and sisters whom she tried forget. She even felt a little sorry for that hedgehog, because in this way he almost reminded her of herself. Although she was even pleased that he looked at her and smiled. Probably because he wanted to make her happy, despite the fact that he was treated like a thing. — “If I had my voice now, I would speak out to them about how they impudently treat this unfortunate servant. Maybe they'll at least listen to me and treat him more respectfully, considering how politely they treat me. Even in my own family, I was never treated like this. I'm already starting to like it here. It seems that I didn’t regret at all that I agreed to the deal with the witch, became a human and decided to stay here forever.” — she, of course, thought about all this and for a long time did not notice what was on her plate. — Why don’t you eat? Prince Sonic asked as he chewed and swallowed his crab's right claw. Amy lowered her gaze to the plate and was almost horrified, even gritting her teeth. She had the dead crab itself on her plate. Without a head, and even with a bunch of lettuce, which they shoved into him instead of a head. It was terrible. Amy was about to scream in indignation if she had her voice. The only thing she could do was breathe and catch her breath. Robotnik, finishing his crab, joked out loud: — Eat quickly, madam, before your crab runs off the plate. — “How dare they treat sea creatures like this? And it’s such a terrible joke? Are they out of their minds? Maybe dad was right? Are they really barbarians?" — at first she thought with excitement and even began to be ashamed that she had become a human. However, then she shook her head and clenched her hands into fists. — “No, Amy! Forget about this impudent person who never loved or respected you. From now on you are a person, like all those people. Since you are one of them, then you must prove it! Forget your past and live in the present." She grasps one of the crab's left legs with the thumb and forefinger of her right hand. He tugs it slightly and breaks it off from the body. From seeing and hearing the crunch, the hedgehog even sighed in fear. Sonic and Robotnik immediately looked at her with bulging eyes. — What's wrong with you? Have you never eaten crabs? — the prince asked, and the hedgehog shook her head in response. — Poor thing! She had never even tasted normal food in her life. That's probably why he's worried. — Or maybe she’s just a vegetarian? — Uncle suggested. — Let’s remove the crab itself and eat it ourselves, and leave the salad for her. Amy, in response, extended her hand, thereby asking them not to do this. She still dared to taste the sea life. But for mermaids this would be called cannibalism. — “You can do it, Amy. Let's!" — she forced herself in her thoughts, opened her mouth and stuck her paw on her tongue, and then closed her mouth. She began to chew the paw like chips or cookies, and then swallowed it. Then she bulges her eyes. Not from horror this time, but rather from surprise and pleasure. — “Saint Neptune, I have never tasted anything tastier in my life!” Immediately forgetting her fears and habits of mermaids, which she had retained since childhood, she took the crab into her hands without cutlery. She took it and began to bite it off little by little in order to eat it all. She ate it and ate it with such appetite, as if she had not eaten anything in her life for a long time. The crab, especially stuffed with salad, turned out to be very tasty. Sonic smiled again and turned to his uncle: — No, uncle. Your theory about her being a vegetarian is out. Robotnik was a little embarrassed and even amused by the fact that Amy was eating crab with her hands, as if she didn’t know how to behave at the table. And Amy eats the crab and eats it, not forgetting to moo with pleasure. After she finished the crab along with the salad and the plate was empty, Amy accidentally burped, which she herself did not expect. The belching made her feel ashamed that her cheeks turned red. The prince and his uncle laughed at her belching, and the prince even joked: — Do you know what my mother says to this?... Don’t keep it to yourself! Amy also joined them from what she heard and laughed. When they finished laughing, Sonic took her hand and helped her out of her chair. — So what? Will you come with me to see how my people are doing? — he asked Amy and she nodded in response.