About this story
A blue-haired face rises beside the boat to correct him: Princess Clia is a water fairy, not a drowning legend, and she offers you both mermaid tails for a visit to the ocean floor. Queen Aquareine welcomes you into her coral palace and promises a safe way home - until a shadow the size of a hull darkens the glass roof overhead.
How it opens
The bench beneath the acacia tree overlooked the Pacific where your father's schooner traveled.
Nobody ever saw a mermaid and lived to tell the tale.
You trusted the old sailor's experience but found a hole in the familiar warning.
If no witness returned, who described their faces, songs, and tails?
Someone may have found a picture, or sailors may know more than they bring home.
Giant's Cave is deep water under a low roof; mind your head and the turning tide.