Walpurgis Night-The Ballade of Blue (Book 4)

STORYBOARD/PLOT DRAFT

• Discovers they are falling into sea
• Struggles to reach the surface but faints out of suffocation, but wakes up to meet a school of mermaids
• Able to breathe underwater because they were rescued by the mermaid princess and given magic gills to survive
• Discovers the mermaid princess is engaged secretly with a human prince under her parents' approval but the prince's father, angered by this, locks the prince in a tower, forbidding them to wed
• Wallie feels for the princess and decides to persuade the King in exchange for the princess's help to locate an Ever-Being to take them home
• Meets the King who is in the body of a little girl and finds out that it is a custom in this continent to have Wisemen combine body and soul of whichever spouse dies and the body becomes younger as they grow older
• King disagrees of relationship because he blames merpeople for his wife's death
• Will only agree if Wallie and Serene can convince his sister in the neighbour country to return him his Crystal Diamond, the source of their country's prosperity
• Wallie and Serene meets with the prince and the prince tells her to give his royal ring to the princess if all else fails
• Wallie's quest becomes a chain of favours: King's Crystal for the prince and princess's marriage; King's sister's childhood crush for the diamond; childhood crush's heart for the relationship; a dinner for a heart; stop a harassment for a dinner; a family heirloom for a halt in harassment; stop another harassment for the family heirloom; a love returned for a halt in harassment; brother made apprentice for a love returned; a lost love for apprenticeship; and a son returned for a reconciled love
• A few people tagging along in Wallie and Serene's quest
• Fulfills everyone's favours and the King reluctantly allows the wedding to proceed
• Princess lends them sea creatures to take them to an Ever-Being who leads them to the Bayou
• Hymanjalai in dolphin form request gift for safe passage
• Serene offers her ankle lace and passes through