“Hey, if I might interrupt, here, I’d have to want to take over the world before I’d attempt to try it,” Chelsea pointed out. “You said yourself, I will need to learn my powers, so if you’ve got a ready and willing teacher, I say bring it on. I’ve always been a quick study, and besides, you’ve got to train more people than just me right now. It’ll be okay. I’m a big girl.”
“Are you sure, my dear?” Paribdus wanted to know. “My sister is a pretty evil character at heart. She would love to lead you astray if she thought she could get away with it just for the laugh she could get from it. You’ll need to keep all your wits about you.”
“If anyone could do it, I’m sure Chelsea could,” said Mark with a smile.
“Thanks for the vote of confidence.”
“As it turns out, you already know Sirenia, by the way,” the king told her then. “She is your instructor, Jill. She’s been observing you all this time, and that attack on you the other night was set in motion as a sort of a test. Since you survived, even though it was through no fault of your own, you passed. She now believes you are worthy to learn.”
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“How many other people I’ve been working alongside for the last two months aren’t actually humans?” Chelsea wanted to know.
“Only Jill and I, sweetheart,” Mark laughed. “It’s no huge conspiracy or anything. Well, maybe the fact that Jill wanted to recruit you as one of her minions was bordering on conspiratorial, but still, there’s no agenda among any of us to take over the entire world and eradicate the lot of you for your pollutionary ways. We’re here mostly to teach.”
“I get that,” Chelsea nodded. “If I’m meant to learn, then by all means, teach me. Both of you, and in great measure. Especially teach me how to become powerful enough to swim in the sea as a shark or other creature, and be able to see the city where your father rules. I would love to see your kingdom one day, sir.”
“And so you shall,” he said with a nod. “Maybe even sooner than you think.”
Chelsea didn’t know what he meant by that statement. She was just happy to be sitting there at all. How many other young women her age had the opportunity to have a casual chat with the king of the sea while sitting practically naked by his offspring, the handsome prince who had chosen her for his bride? It was straight out of her favorite fairytale, and she was loving every minute of it.