Chapter 11: N'Shal and Eeba Meet the Naiads

 

   One day,  the two oldest mermaid  princesses, N'Shal and Eeba,  visited N'Shal's undine friend Cachina.  Cachina invited them to meet some naiads in a group called Aquatic Watch.
     Aquatic Watch is a neighborhood watch group consisting of undines, melusines, naiads, and woodland fairies.  They hope to complete their group by recruiting some mermaids.  Aquatic Watch is headed by a naiad known as Sunshine.  
     Unofficially a human couple named Dale and Hazel Hill are associate members. Dale is a craftsman.  Hazel and Sunshine had been friends since they were little girls.
     The naiad language is more comprehensible when you read it out loud.  For example, "Cummin seddas bel," translates as, "Welcome to our home;" and, “Gotsum forners.  Tooavum. Airyuls buds," translates as, "We have two visitors who have come a long way to be here.  They’re mermaids.”
     At one point in the Aquatic Watch meeting, Ailin, the leader of the fairies spoke to the group with the assistance of the melusine Marakit because Ailin's voice was too small to be heard by all present.  He reported that two members of Metamorph—a group believed to be sponsored by Beauteous Kingdom's deadliest enemies—were seen entering the Edward Mandell house.  Mandell, as a close associate of Beauteous Kingdom's twelve magicians, held some power in the kingdom.
     Ailin had earlier reported this turn of events to Dale and Hazel Hill, who in turn had reported it to Police Commissioner Miranda Wright.  Dale and Hazel secretly acted as conduits of information between Aquatic Watch and the Royalton Police Department.  They didn't trust the Royal Investigations Commission (RICO) enough to share information with them.
     N'Shal and Eeba didn't join Aquatic Watch that day, but they'd do so later.  Eeba would be the mermaid commander.

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