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

“Elva would like it. It's what the

politically correct. I should have I made certain Elva knew to call everyone merfolk. The little princess didn’t seem to mind though. She looked at Elva with the kind of fondness a sister might

if that rubbed off on the older children as well, who saw the younger as

me to the shelfs and picked one

was already drifting. I roused her slightly so that she would know where she was and where I

get to sleep like a mermaid...” she said, and then

I backed away from the shelf where my angel

“I’ll make sure she sleeps undisturbed.” It was so sweet

like I had given her the greatest

to interfere in

keep the other children away

through and through seeing such kindness. Elva has made a friend for life

would get to see

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

that I'd seen, to Queen

depending on the light. Even her fins were different than the other

glow somewhat, as bright and mysterious as the float orbs

tell just from looking at her that

most likely, though I knew so little of magic, I had no idea if merfolk

wished Veronica was

treating yours

worthy of some type of honorific.

to you, but I can see now that I was mistaken in that regard.” I blinked, surprised

was surprised a second time but

said. “Though I suspect you too 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 as it could be, with Jane’s distance and the talismans

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