The Mermaid's secret was, that she didn't know how to swim! She had spent the summer bathing in shallow waters but she never dared to dive really deep as her sisters did. So she had stayed behind, alone on the cooling shores. She shivered with cold and felt her throat getting sore. Already on a few nights, she hadn't been able to reach the high notes needed to light up the most important stars. She tried to sing once more to light up the biggest star.