"Were going to figure this out and you'll be walking around here and annoying me again in no time. I'm just kidding on the last thing I said Pete." Myka says as she leaves picking up the books to meet Claudia downstairs in the living room adjacent to the balcony.
"Myka hi ok we have books that I brought from the warehouse so we can look through the books and try to find a way to help Pete."
"I want to help him we have to find a way to free him from this magic I guess one could call it."
"We will Myka but first we feast out on Chinese food that's an order I may not out rank you but still lets eat I'm hungry. I think you are too but your mind is on helping Pete so you're not going to admit it."
"Claudia how is it you have such good insight? I am hungry I admit it and yes my mind is focused on helping Pete." Myka says softly.
"Ok then lets feast out ok we have chicken cashew and beef and broccoli. Which would you like or would you like a bit of both?"
"Little bit of both please are there any egg rolls?"
"Sure I got them wouldn't be Chinese food without the egg rolls and I have sweet and sour sauce to."
"Great thank you I'm hungry. Oh how are classes going for you at the university?"
"Totally easy classes I'll be graduated in two months and I got accepted into the secret service to they have accepted me as an agent."
"Claudia that's great your not leaving us are you?"
"No way I like the warehouse full of madcap it's my home and I can't leave it I'm happy here."
"Glad to hear it wouldn't be the same if you left the warehouse." Myka says as they finish dinner.
"Why don't you go rest out on the balcony and I'll clean up and then we can get to work on looking trough the books to see if we can find a counter spell or magical something to help Pete."
"Thank you Claudia I'll be out on the balcony I mean porch come get me when you're ready."
"I will go rest for a while and take it easy I'll come get you I promise Myka."
Moving towards the porch Myka lies down on a lounge chair and pulls her favorite throw blanket up around her to keep the late night cold air away as she rests her head on the pillow. Closing her eyes she slowly falls asleep on the lounge chair tired from trying to help Pete and trying to be a good agent.
Walking out onto the balcony Claudia looks over at Myka, "Ok ready to go things are cleaned up and we can get to work…" her voice drifts as she sees Myka is asleep.
"Sleep well Myka you need to rest it's been a long day." Going back inside Claudia starts to work on looking over the books and trying to find something to help Pete.
Taking a book of the pile she rereads the original story of The Little Mermaid to try to obtain more information from the story to try to help Pete.
"It's a good story but it's not helping me at all." Claudia says grumbling a bit as she closes the book and tosses it aside and takes another off a stack in front of her.
Opening the book its pages are yellowed from the passage of time the words are faded and dull but still readable.
"It looks as if this book might have been some sort of a journal or a book for random thoughts that they wrote down in this book. This might be useful there has to be something in this book for info on helping Pete."
Reading it she finds a faded hand written entry held within its crinkly pages, "Wait this is useful info yes finally thank you warehouse." Claudia says smiling to herself. Reading the paragraphs,
Stories of myths and legends have been told for years, falling upon several eager listening ears of all ages. None ever so intriguing as those told of the sea and all the secrets they hold blow the glistening Safire blue waves. No other stories enchant audiences like those of the ones that live below the soft curling waves of the ocean merfolk.
"This is like a journal well almost of a family maybe I can't tell yet but I'll figure this out. If I can hack the grid I can figure this out no problem." Claudia says trying to figure out the words on the pages.
Reading further in the book it says, "One that that a shell was found on a deserted beach long the sand with blue waves washing it up on shore. One picked it up and after a few days they had never been the same almost reliving a story before their own eyes. Like a story being played out before our eyes but different from the one that had been written so long ago. Still they were forever changed without a way of returning to what they once were."
"Oh there has to be more than this." Claudia says yawning.
Not able to keep her eyes open anymore Claudia goes upstairs to get some sleep for the night. Going over to Myka she wakes her up, "Myka it's late you should go upstairs and get some sleep. I have been working for a while but I can't keep my eyes open any longer I need some sleep."
"Thank you for waking me up I need some sleep I'm so tired." Myka says her voice sleepy sounding.
"I am going to keep my door open incase Pete wakes up he might not recall what's happened to him so I want to make sure he doesn't get too startled by all this."