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Max smiled a bit bitterly at Irvin and nodded. He knew it was very high a price for Irvin to agree to his proposal. He could have deliberately not tell him the harsh rules for bringing him back, but he couldnt bring himself to lie to his mate. He stroked Irvin's jiggling , saying hi to the little ones, and sadly recited the stories that heknew of. "Some humans... they regretted after staying for a dozen or so years. It's the same everytime... they would start quarrelling, then the heatybetween them would get so much their bon would be severed forever. The selkie would then bring the human mate to the deepest of oceans and....left. some better ones would bring their mate to an isloated island where no other soul would visit....abandoning them there forever. Selkies who ha lost their mate would also slowly wither from the guilt of having killed yheir mate an eventually die from heartbreak...."