Alice and Peter

"Ariel, ever since the jour I met you, I have always loved you." "Oh Jim..."

Seventeen-year-old mermaid, Princess Ariel lays down on her seashell bed. She holds onto her mothers musique box and hugs it. The whole underwater room is filled with her chatty sisters. "Oh my gosh, did toi see her hair this morning?" Attina tells her closest sister, Arista. "Oh my gosh! I did! It was sooooooo ugly!" "Who are girls talking about?" Another one of their sisters awith a lavender tail and blond hair in a bun asks. "Oh...nobody Andrina." Arista says. Ariel sighs. "Okay, what's up with you?" Ariel's older sister,...

Thomas brought Ariel to the place where he woke up that morning. He opened a chest, in which he previously took his clothes and gun, and found a woman's gown. He ripped another cloth, carefully bandaged Ariel's wound, and dressed her in the cream-colored gown. Then he laid her on a mattress he found in the chest.


"There, there. You'll be all right," he a dit softly. "It is mostly shock, I guess. I hope you'll forgive me, miss, because I didn't mean to hurt you."

Ariel closed her eyes and refused to speak. She was still shocked and frightened,...