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The moment their cells touched the water’s edge, they melted into the pool. Paige felt herself slowly descend, slipping below the surface. They sank deeper and deeper, entering the depths of the pool.
The light from the bright sun waned, and they descended into darkness. Paige bobbed up and down, floating in her water cell for several moments before light blinded her.
It floated closer and closer until she made out the fairy, who approached with a contingent of tiny fairies carrying flameless torches.
The fairy drifted closer to them. A large, dark figure trailed behind her. The tiny, torch-bearing fairies spread out around them. As the other two figures floated closer, Paige made out the form of the FearMonger.
Her eyes grew wide, and she grabbed at the net surrounding her.
“Are these the two who disturbed your slumber?” the fairy inquired of her beastly friend.
“Yes,” the creature growled back.
The fairy turned her now blue eyes toward Paige and Dewey. “And ran when you attempted to punish them?”
The FearMonger bobbed his head up and down.
“Wait a minute!” Paige said. “We just took a wrong turn.”
“Liar,” the fairy bellowed, her eyes flashing red. “You are a thief and a liar.”
“I am not,” Paige countered. “Let us go!”
“For your crimes, I curse you. You will spend one hundred years in your prison,” the fairy exclaimed.
“What? Wait! There was no trial! We are entitled to a trial. A chance to prove ourselves innocent.”
“You are entitled to nothing in my realm,” the fairy growled at them.
The FearMonger offered them a devilish grin as he eyed them floating in their cells. He offered the fairy his arm, and together, they floated away, along with the light-carrying contingent of small fairies.
Darkness settled around them again. Paige curled herself into a ball, suspended in the water, wrapping her arms around her knees and letting her head drift down.
Her eyes stung, and she assumed tears filled them.
“Paige!” Dewey’s muffled voice called.
Paige’s heart broke for him. She glanced up, her vision blurred.
“I’m sorry, Dewey,” she sobbed.
Dewey shouted something else at her, but she could not understand him. She bit into her lower lip as she grabbed hold of the bars. Dewey waved his paws, his mouth opening and closing in an exaggerated manner.
Her eyebrows pinched as she tried to make out his words.
“The water, Paige. The water.”
“Yes, I know. We’re trapped underwater. I don’t know if we can fix this.”
“The water!” Dewey shouted again, his finger floating back and forth in a slow poke at Paige.
Paige glanced around her before she shook her head, her hair floating around her. “Huh?”
“Drink the water.”
Paige drew her chin back, her nose wrinkling. “Drink the water?”
Dewey’s head bobbed up and down.
