Poppy
Humphrey and Giles
Reginald
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Humphrey and GilesHumphrey was a solitary sort who found socializing deeply inconvenient and preferred the company of smoked mackerel, obscure operas, and the occasional taxidermized sea cucumber. His days were spent meticulously rearranging sea charts no one had requested and composing stern letters to the tide, which he felt had grown increasingly presumptuous. He was widely regarded as a most eligible and entirely unappealing bachelor.That is, until the Season he met Giles—an outrageously confident gentleman of dubious lineage and dangerously well-matched accessories. Giles swept into the Leviathan ball in a cloud of cologne and whispered rumors, immediately upsetting several dowagers and at least one bishop. Their courtship was swift and shocking: furtive glances across the ballroom, an emotionally charged duel with sardine forks, and a scandalous shared carriage ride during a thunderous downpour. Naturally, they caused a sensation.Within months, they had eloped to a modest seaside estate and adopted a fishling of uncertain parentage—rumored to be the illegitimate offspring of a baroness and a sturgeon. High society was appalled. Humphrey, however, had never been happier.
ReginaldReginald, the half-fish, half-human adopted son of the scandalous duo Humphrey and Giles, was equal parts charm, mischief, and gilled delinquency. A born rogue with a talent for practical jokes and an utter disregard for authority, he was politely expelled from every respectable boarding school from Port Nemo to Palmižana . Headmasters described him as “intolerably impish and perpetually meddlesome.” At home, he was no better—forever leaving trails of water, hiding smoked kippers in the harpsichord, or replacing the butler’s pomade with anchovy paste. And yet, it was impossible to stay cross with him. After all, how do you scold a boy who can pick your pocket, ruin your upholstery, and still kiss you goodnight with the innocence of a guppy.
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