Mermaid International

If you're looking for us, we are up on the 4th floor of 2B Grant Lane. It’s Room No. 62. The building is one of those older ones in the city, so the stairs can be a bit of a climb if the lift is feeling grumpy that day. Our office isn't very large. It’s mostly filled with filing cabinets and a few desks pushed against the walls. We do a lot of international trade stuff, which basically means we spend half our life on the phone or typing out emails to people in different time zones. There is always a stack of shipping documents on the corner of my desk that never seems to get any smaller. Grant Lane is a busy commercial spot, so you can always hear the horns and the shouting from the street below even four floors up. We keep a small stove in the back for making coffee because the days can get pretty long when we're waiting for a shipment to clear. It’s not a fancy corporate environment. Most of us just wear regular clothes and get on with the paperwork. Sometimes the internet goes slow and we all just sit around talking until it picks up again. We’ve been in this room for a few years now. The walls could probably use a fresh coat of paint, but we're usually too busy with the ledgers to worry about that. It’s just how it is here. We just try to keep things moving along.