In Which Quite a Bit Happens
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 103771
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Cordana swims around with the women for quite some time, very happy to wile away hours and hours just paddling around the pool. The nymphs take delight in guiding her around, and they start bringing her under, for longer and longer spans of time. Cordana stays, of course; why would she leave? As the days pass, something about the pool or maybe the seaweed that now entirely constitutes her diet affects the way she breathes, and the length of time she can hold her breath reaches the point where she can sleep for the night under the water. It is indeed very deep, so deep she has yet to reach the bottom, but there are plenty of crevices and places on which to rest on the sides. Not only does living with the nymphs help her to live underwater, but it helps her to camouflage too; her fur eventually turns blue and green just like the women's hair. The women start referring to her as Marina, and it takes some getting used to, but she doesn't mind. They treat her just as well as Zenobia did, and though she misses her previous owner terribly, she would be content to live the remainder of her days in the pool. One day, nearly a year after she met the nymphs, a small group of people passes through the forest, which is no common occurrence. The women send Marina to go lead them to the pond, and they lie in wait, giggling while Marina happily does so. She's able to bring back only one, a young man, and she watches in mild confusion as the women talk to him. Almost immediately he seems to be under some kind of spell, and follows the sound of their voices. He actually steps into the pool and of course drops like a rock. Laughing, the women dive down, and none of them resurface for several minutes. Marina is lying by the pool licking her fur when a man and a woman, the companions of the young man who went into the pool, rush up to the pool. They both stare at her. "That strange dog again," the man says. The woman leaps forward and shouts into the pool, "Aron!" One of the nymphs pop up very suddenly, and the woman draws her thin but sturdy sword and places the tip against the nymph's throat. "What have you done with him?" she demands. The nymph looks imploringly at the man behind her, and says "Help me, please" in the sweetest, most pleading voice. Dazed, the man starts to step forward, and the woman promptly cuts off the nymph's head.
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Koth
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