The Beastmaker's Victory
He'd expected mermen, and dispatched soldiers to the ships to counter them. all he'd managed to do, however, was to give the dread beast a few extra iron-rations with its supper.
Zippy Zipperdale: Moderately Mad Scientist
The fountain seemed to be very old, much older then the school itself, and depicted six mermaids and six tritons (or mermen, if you prefer) rising out of the sea with their hands thrown out in a fashion that suggested the worship of something.
The Beastmaker's Age - YEAR 1
mermen, after all, had effectively zero sex-drive outside of the extremely rare mating-seasons... absent some highly potent aphrodisiacs, of course.