Mermaids??? In Strasbourg???

I was walking back from class with one of the girls from the Strasbourg program when we both stopped mid-conversation and said, "Do you hear that???".

We'd been walking along chatting, completely ignoring the fact that we had our own soundtrack playing in the background. Of course, as soon as we realized that soundtracks don't exist in real life it stopped. If it had been night time I would have freaked out, but being the middle of the day we just twittered a little nervously about the Truman Show and laughed it off.

The music started again and Emily turned to me and said, "Let's follow it!". So off we went, trying to find the source of this music that was hanging in the air. It was so strange too, because it sounded like music that you hear underwater, eerie, muted and echoing. If we had been by the ocean, I would have half-jokingly said it was mermaids (only half).

We never found where the music was coming from, though the rational part of me surmised that there is some kind of symphonic orchestra that plays on campus in one of the buildings, and that the underwater sound was because it was being played inside (rather loudly, because we heard it across campus).

..... I'd rather believe it was mermaids.