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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
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