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ocean bed and he created a magic bubble, whereby they could
both breathe. The bubble contained no water and there was no
gravity pull within the membrane but they could both move around by
sort of swimming within the dry air.’
    ‘That’s just like now poppa.
That’s how we get around our city, so things haven’t changed that
much, have they?’
    ‘No, I don’t suppose they have in
that respect. This was the foundation of our way of life below the
deep seas. The bubble slowly became bigger and better and they
lived happily for many more suncircles. Quintim never desired to be
parted from Lillyanna so he accepted living this way. The only time
they were forced to part was when she had to go find food, but she
never left his side for long.
    Well now, eventually other sea
creatures began to notice this odd pair living on the ocean bed in
their bubble and even sea creatures like to talk, so word soon
spread amongst them..’
    ‘Poppa,’ Bryley asked with a tired
yawn, ‘do you think that if those sea creatures had kept quiet,
then the two of them would have been safe?’
    ‘Who knows my Princess? If the
next part had not happened, then our race may not have been
created.
    ‘I suppose that’s true but I can’t
help feeling sorry for them. They loved each other so much.’ She
rubbed her eyes determined to hear out the end of the
story.
    ‘Well. Remember that this was the
time when there was no Magic Wall separating the Dark Side from the
Light Side and the monshaad creatures soon heard of this
tale.’
    ‘This is the bit that scares me. I
don’t like the thought of creatures that are full of gasses that
can poison us all.’
    ‘But they cannot my sweet because they are imprisoned
behind the Magic Wall, don’t ever forget that. We will cover that
story another time but you know full well that they cannot harm us.
Now then, in the time when
they were free to roam the world, they believed that if they
captured the magical human-dolphin then perhaps they could work out
how to transform themselves from their foul gas form back into some
type of solid being. They set about to capture her by sending the
cold-water serpents into our warm seas. Once the serpents had found
them, they crashed into the magic bubble with all their might, but
the bubble would not be broken. Unfortunately, this also meant that
they were trapped within. So, the monshaads instructed the serpents
to make an agreement that would allow the human-dolphin to take her
Mate up to the land where he came from but then she must meet with
them to discuss her own fate.
    Quintim was growing old with all
his skills of magic weakened. He could not rid them of the evil
serpents that were on constant guard outside of their home. Time
passed by and the two lovers’ neared death with every moment.
Desperate, Lillyanna faltered and left their home, swimming with
her weakened partner to the surface. There she left him, on a small
island where he would be safe from the serpents that hunted her.
She planned to out-swim them and then return to collect him so that
they could continue their happy lives together.
    It was thirty moonwakes before she
finally out maneuvered the serpents, managing to escape their
clutches. Returning to the island where she had left her beloved,
she was horrified to discover only the bones of the human mage. His
muscles had wasted through the inactivity within the magic bubble,
he could not even crawl to get himself water or food. He had wasted
away and died and then birds had picked at his body. Devastated at
his death, she buried him and remained on this special island
living in a wet cove.
    She lived a sad lonely life until
one moonwake she found a male dolphin that had beached himself
after being chased through the oceans by serpents. He was seriously
hurt and she healed him with her magic. When he was well he refused
to leave her and she used her magic to create his body into the
same image as hers, other than he was a male.
    And so, the