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"Hm... Well, I don't know any merpeople games... What games do you like to play?" Secretly, Nobuyuki knew that if he could keep Hali happy enough, he could conduct his own behavioral observations, and one of the best ways to observe any being was during play, as it shows the learning process...

Nobuyuki was surprised at the reaction, but did his best to hide it.   "That's quite alright.  We can do something else if you'd rather... Do you like games?"

"It's a pretty nice peice of technology.  Say,  would you like to try something interesting, like a little experiment? I'd like to see how you'd react to different situations..."

The device came up to only a couple of feet from the merman before it began scanning him as well.  A picture slowly formed on the screan, showing Hali's intricate scales and webbed digits, amoungst many other details.  Once the diagrams were completed, Nobuyuki printed out the one of the...

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"Would you like to try it out?  I'll show you the picture afterwards if you want me to." Nobuyuki offered.  He also had some ideas for experimental studies, but they would be useless without a decent scanning of how Hali's body looked when he was still.  

"Well Hali, you don't need to be afraid.  This is just how I'm going to take your picture."  He turned a small knob on the remote control and then stood still as a geometric plane of red light began slowly scanning him.  As it did, his image appeared on a screan, with some dimensions alongside...

"My name?  My name is Dr. Nobuyuki Tashinamu.  What's yours?"  He went over to a small cabinet and took out a high definition camera and a remote.   Pressing a button on said remote caused a large scanning eye to decend from the ceiling, away from the tank.  He walked over to the scanner and...

Nobuyuki used his own, unwebbed hand to examine the mermans'.  He found himself truly fascinated by the differences in anatomy, and yet the vast similarities that were present between the two.  "Um...if you don't mind my doing so, I'd like to take some anatomical photos... It won't hurt, it...

"OH!  Oh, of course, I'm so sorry... I'm afraid I got a bit carried away..."  He walked quickly back over to the box and unlocked it, opened it, and retrieved the necklace, bringing it back to the tank.   After handing the necklace over to the merman, he held out his hand.  "May I please see...

"The quality of this piece is amazing..." Nobuyuki was too entranced to notice the merman's hand at first.  "Your people must have delicate tools to be able to make such intricate peices...and these shells!  You did make this, didn't you?"  He looked up at the being and tilted his head when he...

"Well, we humans have changed since long ago.  Things are done differently now..." He sighed and climbed down the ladder by the tank, figuring he ought to change the subject.  "So, I have to ask...Did you make this...this necklace that was with you?"  He walked over to the box, which was a good...

"Oh, well, I didn't capture you.  This is the first time I've ever seen you to be honest...  You got caught up in some netting from a boat, and when they saw you, they realized what a huge discovery you were.  See, us humans didn't have any scientific proof that merpeople, that's what us...

"Wow... Can you breathe air then?  I suppose so, you had those bubbles in your mouth..." Nobuyuki reached his hand out towards the merman, hoping he might come closer.  

Nobuyuki bacame curious and when up to the tank.  He rolled his sleeves up and slid the top of the tank off before dipping his hand into the water.   He tried to smile in a comforting manner and spoke gently.  'I'm a human.  I want to learn more about you.  Will you please come up to me so...

The scientist could do nothing but blink as he gazed in amazement at the being in front of him.  This...person...had just made what sounded a bit like a combination of a dolphin's and a whale's singing, before apparently nodding at him.   "C-can you um... Can you speak English?  It would be...

Nobuyuki tried to quietly urge the other people out of the room.  "He could hardly believe what was in front of him, and though he couldn't blame the workers' reactions, he knew that it would be best to not crowd this...fishlike person and keep the scene calm.   Eventually, he managed to...

After being informed that the 'specimen ' was ready, Nobuyuki walked quietly into the examination room, which had a large tank in the center for holding different sized creatures.   At first he saw nothing but a light blue stringy substance by a large rock, and his initial thought was that...

Nobuyuki leaned back in his desk chair and rubbed his eyes.  He'd been called at 3:00 in the 'morning' to receive some sort of unexpected research specimen that he was supposed to be studying, most likely another mutated fish or a new kind of microbe, or something of the sort.  The person on the...