I sighed as I walked around the Elven castle, Kraken sitting on my shoulder. I had awoken at the crack of dawn and was trying to figure out what to do until the time of our meeting. I wound up finding Invent working diligently onto something, so I walked up behind her to look over her shoulder. She was carefully attaching a wooden wing to the body of a wooden spider. "What is that anyways?" I asked.

She jumped in fright as she whirled around to stare at me, "Flame! Don't sneak up on me like that!"

"Sorry Invent...I was just curious on what you were doing?" I apologized.

"It's alright Flame." She gave me a gentle smile before turning back toward her winged spider thing, "I'm trying to create a new machine to deliver messages but...I've never had any luck in getting it to actually work before." She seemed sad by this.

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"I can understand that." I said sadly.

Invent looked curiously at me, "What happened back in the tunnels? You're a fairy so you should be able to handle water, but it was like you couldn't do anything against it?"

I looked sadly down at the ground before sitting next to her as I answered, "For some reason I've...I've never been able to do anything water related. I can't even swim."

We sat there in silence for a while before Invent finally spoke, "Maybe...your waterpower is replaced by something else? We should ask your father to tell us about your mother some time! Maybe she had something that replaced your waterpower!?" I gave her a grateful smile for trying to encourage me.

"Maybe...Come on. We better get going. It's almost time to meet up with Prince." I answered as I stood up and held out my hand to help Invent to her feet. She nodded before quickly grabbing a few building materials and equipment to shove into her pockets. How all that stuff fit inside her pockets, I will probably never know. Once she was finished, we both left the room, heading for the throne room and the beginning of a long journey.