Cassie lives on Temple Eleven’s first floor, on the Dugong side, and shares the back tunnel with Gattie and her crew, Kirka and her crew, and others. Cassie is also Team Leader, but since “The Change” has come upon her, the relationship between her and her crew (three unnamed naiad teenagers) has fallen on hard times. They don’t “HATE” hate each other. But they kinda hate each other. They stress each other out, more specifically.
Stress causes “stress-fangs” and “finning.” Here, she is not pictured with her fangs out, because she is not barring her fangs. But they’re in there. It’s considered a tad aggressive in familiar company. “Hangs out with her Fangs out,” is a common slam. Until you get older, when “Hangs out with her Fangs out,” flips and becomes a compliment. You know how it goes. Cassie is the least aggressive (new) Mermaid ever. But she can barely crank cans anymore, she’s feverish, and her body hurts all over because her guts are rearranging.
With poor can production, Dugong Helical Energy Team One-12-2, brings down the stats of the whole stack. And as a consequence, their uptube neighbors show displeasure by keeping the best bits of food for themselves and sending the (shall we say) “over ripe” bits of sloppy seaweed gruel down the food chute. A poor diet causes more poor production and the spiral of depression continues down.
They used-to-could count on Bosco to bring some supz – juicy doonies etc. – but with Bosco gone, everyone in One-12-2 spends their days in constant near-freak-out.
But then Joy showed up… and everything got better (?)