Chapter 0519 With the drama mostly settled forthe moment, I thanked Nicholas for his help.

He smiled once more at me.

Then we split ways, and I made my way down to where the children were playing I to check on Elva. As I drew closer, I could see how tired she was.

It made sense, while the other children were swimming around using their strong tails, Elva had only her two weak legs. Of course she would be exhausted trying to keep up.

She was still smiling, still having fun, but she wasn’t moving with quite the vibrancy she’d earlier displayed.

When she saw me, she waved. I kicked my way over to her, opened my arms, and immediately she came closer to rest.

“Are you having fun, sweetheart?” I

asked her.

“So much fun,” she said with a yawn.

“Don’t make me go home, Mommy” “Not yet, dearest. But you better rest for a moment.” “Just a minute,” she said. Her eyes drooped, but she fought off sleep.

Watching her efforts made my heart ache.

Poor thing didn’t want to miss a minute of this adventure.

One of the merfolk children tugged at my arm. She was a bit older than Elva, maybe seven or eight, with her hair done up in elaborate pigtails. A row of pearls dotted across her forehead. A royal, then.

She pointed at the wall behind them, where I noticed some shelfs had been set up, each covered in some soft-looking cushions.

“When we get sleepy,” the little princess said, “that’s where we sleep.” She

she could twirl her fins around her fingers. “Elva would like it. It's what the mermaids do.” She giggled at

Elva knew to call everyone merfolk. The little princess didn’t seem to mind though. She looked

they’re own. I wondered if that rubbed off on the

me to the shelfs

drifting. I roused her slightly

was so tired, but she still gave an excited smile. “I get to sleep like a mermaid...” she said,

angel slept, the little princess

she sleeps undisturbed.” It was so sweet and valiant, I thanked

had

in the princess’s self-assigned duties. She seemed to take

other children away

through seeing such kindness. Elva has made a friend for life I here, I knew, even if they

they would get to see each

then, to find the others, only to find a mysterious older merfolk woman behind me. She watched me closely, then tilted

that

on the light. Even her fins were different than the

mysterious as the float orbs at

could tell just from looking at her that this was a matron

I knew so little of magic, I had no idea if merfolk were more or

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other children treating

ma’am,” I said. I didn’t know her name, but felt she was worthy of some type

had worried that the cause was linked to you, but I can see now that I was mistaken in

a second time but

know she is cursed.” ' So Iwas right. Only those with magical abilities would have been able to detect the curse, especially as it was currently inactive. Or, as inactive

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