"Skye,"
It was Horatio, her father's personal assistant, "your father wants to see
you immediately."
"What
have I done now?" she asked more to herself than anyone.
Skye
cautiously entered her father's private study.
"Did
you want to see me, father?" Skye asked.
Turning
around, eyes glaring with anger.
"Just exactly what do you think you are doing?"
"I
don’t know what you are talking about." She stammered as panic filled
her. She could see that her father was
very angry and that anger was directed at her.
"How
could you embarrass your brother like that?
Turning into that…that… thing, right in front of his friends. Haven't you got any more sense than
that?" King Aegean was so angry
his face had turned bright red as he yelled at his daughter.
It
was not her fault that she grew a tail when she went in the water. She had tried many times to stop it from
happening but to no avail. Every time
she went into the water her legs became a tail.
"You
are an embarrassment! I forbid you to
go out where people can see you! Do you
understand?" King Aegean fussed
and fumed at his youngest daughter.
Skye
turned and ran from the room. How could
her father treat her this way? An
embarrassment? She had a good mind to
just swim away and never come back.
That would show them.
Skye
ran from the palace to the portal. She
did not care who saw her she was not an embarrassment. She would show all of them.
Skye entered the portal that led into the ocean. She swam as fast as she could away from the city, away from her home. Marshmallow was right behind her.