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At home, the show Lexi on a Leash is on. Lexi, a siren, willingly wears a dampening collar designed by law enforcement. Though Tavia is disgusted by the show, her father Rodney likes it. Rodney asks about the girls’ time at the Renaissance Faire, teasing Effie like she’s his daughter. Tavia thinks, “What I wouldn’t give for dry skin and a pitiful past that makes fathers reach out instead of holding me at arm’s length” (42). Effie and Rodney talk and laugh easily.
Feeling jealous, Tavia hurries upstairs and reaches for her grandmother. She cries, wishing aloud that she had a normal voice. A blue, underwater feeling surrounds her. Tavia doesn’t want to be estranged from her father, or for him to love Effie more. She considers wearing a dampening collar like Lexi, if this will make people like her father love and trust her.
Tavia goes for a walk, recalling fond times with her ex-boyfriend Priam. Sometimes, she wanted to use the siren song Appeal on him:
If Compel bends someone to a siren’s will, Appeal bends the siren to someone else’s. [...] It’s the call a siren uses to endear someone to her. [...] Basically, it makes the siren attractive to the subject, whatever that means in the moment.