Jack entered the bush, a labyrinth of dreams not yet realized.
As he ventured further in, he could hear Elaine's voice—she was crying.
He found himself on a pond, and it wasn't Elaine crying; it was his sister; Rachel!
Jack watched the dream—memory—play out as he saved her and fell into the ice.
He could hear singing off in the distance.
"Last I saw you there,
Now I am alone...
My grief's too much to bear;
I'll never be home..."
Jack chased the voice, that hypnotic singing and perfect music was amazing—and he found himself in Mermaid's Grotto.
Normally mermaids are friendly, curious creatures. But being under Peter's rule and dealing with him and the Lost Boys had interred in them a hatred of human beings and caused them to use their hypnotic songs to destroy them.
Jack knew this, but the mermaid on the rock looked just like Elaine!
"I can see you...Can you see me?
You have finally arrived; I feel like I might be free!"
Jack realized that Elaine did sound like a mermaid when she sang. She was constantly singing to herself, when she wasn't drawing or writing an extra story in the Booke; though North had told her never to do that.
"E-Elaine?" Jack came closer.
"I've been closed off, my secrets too cold and dark to share;
A frozen fortress, an arctic mermaid, share our secrets through the air!"
Elaine shifted, getting off the rock. Despite being a mermaid she had two legs. Her body was covered in scales like a fish, with the exception of her soft torso. She was a dark blue silver color. Her hair was teal and braided with beads and shells. Her clothes were silvery and easy to move in.
As she got closer she passed through the waterfall and changed back to her regular self.
"You came for me." Elaine said in her normal voice. "Jack, we have to stop Peter. I can't explain it, but we can't let him get a hold of the child he wants."