Chapter 3: Sadie Introduces her Dolphins.
Back at Castle Corvinus, Lucian was going upstairs to wake up Sonja due to a request from Viktor. But he was in complete shock when he saw she wasn't in bed, so he started looking for her. Lucian looked all over the castle and the courtyard together and still no sign of the vampire princess, so he rushed over to Viktor who was in the library with Tannis.
"My Lord," he said in a shocked and panting way. "I went upstairs to wake up your daughter and she wasn't there, I've looked everywhere within these walls, no Sonja!"
Viktor and Tannis were just as surprised as the boy was, and just about as worried.
"If I'm not mistaken," suggested Tannis. "I'm thinking that daughter of yours Viktor, may have rode off to pay that creature Sadie a visit."
Then Viktor grabbed Lucian's hand, asked Tannis to come along, and approached the head Death Dealer, Solomon who greeted the king of the vampires with a bow.
"I need you to have a few horses tacked up for yourself, myself, my favorite, the historian, and a few of the other Death Dealers."
"Yes my lord." Solomon replied.
Meanwhile back at Sadie's caverns, Sadie was giving Sonja a tour of every room she'd created along with what she'd put in it. Sonja really liked the library, she thought Sadie was talented and clever for the murals on the walls, she found every part of the greenhouse just divine, and she loved the Celtic astrology pewter pendant with her birth symbol, that Sadie had tied around her pendant chain by the idea of making it like a 'charm necklace' as Sadie showed her the zodiac and astrology chamber.
"Ready to meet the dolphins?" Sadie asked.
"I'd be obliged." Sonja replied in a pleasing tone.
Sadie led Sonja back up the staircase from the chamber, and down a ramp with murals of real, extinct and imaginary sea life. They came down to a very large and wide room filled with a changing room, a big swimming pool with floating boardwalk docks on the water, and in those waters swam four bottlenose dolphins who approached the two girls near the edge of the pool; one with a temporary tail.
"The one with the tail that's not real is named Winter," Sadie explained as she introduced them to Sonja. "This one who swims beside her most of the time is her best friend, Panama. This big guy here is named Fonzie, and this little one here, is Flipper."
"Wow, their cute, neat and amazing," complimented Sonja feeling astounded. "Do you swim with them?"
"Of course," answered Sadie. "They love to swim with whatever friends they either have or make. Would you like to join me by any chance? They've already had all the fish I've caught out at sea, so they're alright to play with someone."
"I'd love to, but how am I going to even get into the water?" asked Sonja.
"I can fix that for you." Sadie remarked.
Sonja followed Sadie over into the changing room where Sadie showed her bathing suit after she came out of a stall where she took off her regular clothing then explained it to Sonja. Then she asked her to step into the stall next to hers and take her clothing off. Sonja was nervous, but with her heart and pulse racing, and chills running through her body, she took off every garment she wore. Finally, using magic with her designing and crafting powers, she made Sonja a beautiful and very comfortable bathing suit with pictures of seahorses each a different color of the rainbow; and she loved it.