Saphira agrees to stay with him. He is kind and ½ mer. Time passes and she gives birth to a girl at the shore of the sea. She tells him that she will stay until the baby can sing the songs of the sea. Then she must return if she is to stay strong and well.
Saphira has baby girl with turquoise eyes. Saphira sings to her the songs of the sea, especially the one that will turn her baby legs into a tail. At the dark of the moon each month she swims with her daughter, mer mother and child in the darkness, singing to the creatures of the sea.
Prince wants to know if she will visit him and watch over her daughter. She tells him to build an underground grotto in the cave with a tunnel to the castle. She will meet him there on the new moon.
He goes deep in to the castle to begin this project and finds a door in the part of the dungeon that he had always been forbidden to enter. He remembers that his father left him a key in a case, a key he was told to guard with his life. He rushes upstairs, finds the key and returns. The key opens the door. Behind it is a tunnel, and at the end is a grotto. He realizes that his father must have built this, and that his mother must have been mer.
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