inside the ship.

           "When will I be as lucky as my friend," the female flying fish uttered shaking her head. "A handsome man was so amused at her flying on the side of the ship; he threw her a flying kiss and immediately turned into a mermaid."

           What! Raffy silently reacted from where he was swimming. 

           "And she told us that she attended a grand ball and danced with this handsome merman named Raffy inside the big blue palace," the statement of the female flying fish still looking up at the side of the ship.

           And immediately Raffy flew and somersaulted above the sea surface. "I have hope! Yes! Yes!" Raffy shouted in his excitement and happiness remembering that he had indeed danced with a new mermaid he hadn't seen around