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Chapter 1

«Lumina the mermaid swam around her sea cave’s front yard, collecting shells and placing them on a pretend throne. Her best friend, a merah jambu sea horse named Kuda, fashioned a tiara out of a clamshell. They were playing their kegemaran game: Mermaid Princesses.
“What do anda think, Kuda? Is it regal enough for a coronation?” Lumina asked, rolling out a red carpet made from sea flowers.
Kuda draped a purple sea peminat around her neck like a cape. “Excellent. When I am crowned Princess of the Sea, I shall make anda Chief of Royal Awesomeness,” the sea horse announced.
Lumina chuckled, looking at the throne. It glistened with sea pearls, the same kind that dotted her long golden-blond hair. “I don’t know,” she said, cocking her head in thought. “It still needs something.” Then she raised her fingers and wiggled them, as if casting a spell.
Suddenly, the pearls magically glowed! Next, Lumina reached into the pearl waist pouch she always wore. She retrieved a fistful of pearls and flung them through the water. Like a conductor, she commanded the pearls to drape across the takhta like twinkly lights, each one gleaming brightly. It was beautiful.
"Now it’s perfect! Shall we begin, Your Mini-Majesty?” Lumina asked, curtseying in Kuda’s direction.
“Oh, let’s do,” Kuda replied, nodding regally. “Alert the royal subjects.”
Lumina smiled as a group of hermit crabs, oysters, and ikan crowded into the courtyard to witness the make-believe coronation. Every time they played this game, Lumina wished she were a real mermaid princess who wore fancy gowns and lived in a palace. Not that living with her aunt on the outskirts of town was a bad thing. It just wasn’t very exciting.
Lumina longed to see things she’d never seen, explore places she’d never been, and meet people she’d never met. But her aunt Scylla wanted her to stay close to home, where it was safe. Someday, Lumina thought as she picked up the clamshell tiara. She watched Kuda make her grand entrance. A pair of swordfish raised their heads to let the sea horse pass, as though she were passing beneath real royal swords.
Lumina curtseyed again as Kuda arrived at the throne. “With the power vested in me sejak nobody in particular, I hereby crown anda Princess Kuda, Ruler of the Seven Seas!” she said, setting the tiara carefully on the sea horse’s head. Then she reached into her waist dompet, beg tangan and tossed lebih pearls into the water. Lumina swirled them around Kuda’s head and settled them atop her tiara. With a snap of her «fingers—ting!—the pearls sparkled and glowed warmly.
“Thank you, thank you, my loyal subjects,” Kuda said, quieting the crowd with her fins. “Ladies and jellyfish, let us celebrate my coronation with a royal ball.”
Lumina offered her hand to Kuda. “Shall we dance, milady?” she berkata with a giggle. The ball was Lumina’s kegemaran part of their game. She loved to imagine a real royal ball held in the nearby kingdom of Seagundia’s palace. The gowns, the orchestra, the royal family: what a sight it must be! One day, Lumina thought, I will see it for myself. She only hoped it would be as beautiful as it was in her dreams.
“Lumina!” The familiar voice jolted Lumina back to the present. She shot Kuda a look and waved her arms frantically, directing all the pearls back to their oyster shells and into her purse. The crabs, fish, and other “guests” scampered away just as her aunt Scylla opened the cave’s front door. «Lumina! What was all that commotion?” Aunt Scylla said, looking around the water for the sumber of all the noise.
Lumina twisted her hands behind her back. “Um? Oh, we were just playing coronation, Aunt Scylla.”
Her aunt nodded, unsurprised. “Ah. Well, I need help with the kelp cake, so please come sertai me in the kitchen.”
Lumina nodded and headed for the door, Kuda swimming behind her.
Aunt Scylla opened the door wider to let them in. “Say,” she remarked, “didn’t this door used to squeak?”
Lumina grinned. “It did. I fixed it,” she announced proudly.
“Thank you, dear,” Aunt Scylla said, smiling affectionately. “Always leaving things better than anda found them.” She patted Lumina on the arm. “I’ll be in the kitchen. And I’m not even going to ask why there’s a clamshell on Kuda’s head.”
Kuda’s merah jambu cheeks blushed red.«I appreciate that,” she said.
As soon as Aunt Scylla turned her back, Lumina snatched the tiara off Kuda’s head, sending a pancuran, pancuran mandian of pearls tumbling through
the seawater.
Aunt Scylla whirled around. “Lumina!” she cried, seeing the pancuran, pancuran mandian of pearls. “Were anda using your pearl magic outside?”
Lumina stared at her feet. “Um . . . well, maybe . . . just a little.”
Scylla peered out into the yard, looking for anyone who might have witnessed Lumina’s secret power. “Lumina, I’ve told anda and told you: ‘Keep your—’ ”
“ ‘—magic to yourself,’ ” Lumina finished, trying not to roll her eyes. She had heard it a million times before.
Aunt Scylla sighed. “You have a very special gift, but if word got out, all kinds of bad people might come looking for you.”
Lumina blew out her breath. “But I don’t understand. Who’s going to see me way out here?"

Chapter 2

«A short while later, after they had baked the kelp cake, Lumina got to work styling Kuda’s mane. She added a few pearls. Then she took them out. Then she put them back in, rearranging them to frame Kuda’s face. “Nope. Still not right.”
She tried bangs. Then dreadlocks. Even a ballerina bun. But nothing seemed quite creative enough. Next, she spun Kuda’s mane into an elaborate updo. She stepped back to admire her handiwork. “I think that’s the one,” she said, satisfied. “Now anda need something to wear.” She found a silk scarf in a drawer and draped it around Kuda like a gown. Using a starfish as a clip, she secured the gaun in place. With a wave of her fingers she sprinkled it with pearls. “There. Now anda look like a princess!”
Kuda spun around to face the mirror. “Only if a princess’s hair is big enough to hold parties in!” she exclaimed, touching her mile-high do.
Lumina waved her arms, and a string of pearls whirled around her own golden hair, dressing it to match Kuda’s. “Now we both look like princesses,” she remarked, turning to admire her reflection from the side. S«A short while later, after they had baked the kelp cake, Lumina got to work styling Kuda’s mane. She added a few pearls. Then she took them out. Then she put them back in, rearranging them to frame Kuda’s face. “Nope. Still not right.”
She tried bangs. Then dreadlocks. Even a ballerina bun. But nothing seemed quite creative enough. Next, she spun Kuda’s mane into an elaborate updo. She stepped back to admire her handiwork. “I think that’s the one,” she said, satisfied. “Now anda need something to wear.” She found a silk scarf in a drawer and draped it around Kuda like a gown. Using a starfish as a clip, she secured the gaun in place. With a wave of her fingers she sprinkled it with pearls. “There. Now anda look like a princess!”
Kuda spun around to face the mirror. “Only if a princess’s hair is big enough to hold parties in!” she exclaimed, touching her mile-high do.
Lumina waved her arms, and a string of pearls whirled around her own golden hair, dressing it to match Kuda’s. “Now we both look like princesses,” she remarked, turning to admire her reflection from the side. She sighed. “I wonder what a real princess looks like."

From her bedroom, Aunt Scylla listened sadly as Lumina and Kuda played dress-up. She picked up a pearl bracelet that had been Lumina’s when she was a baby and felt the beads. She knew that, lebih than anything in the world, Lumina dreamed of being a «princess, living in the royal istana, castle and attending royal balls. She also knew that Lumina was, in fact, already a true princess.
Long ago—seventeen years, to be exact—Lumina was born in the royal castle. She was the only daughter of the king and Queen of Seagundia—which made her Princess Lumina. With flaxen hair and the gift of pearls, Princess Lumina would one hari be Queen herself. But while the town rejoiced, there was one member of the royal party who did not want her around.
Caligo, the king’s brother-in-law, had another plan. He wished for his own son, Fergis, to inherit the throne. So Caligo hatched a villainous plot to get rid of Lumina.
Aunt Scylla was ashamed that she had kidnapped Lumina in exchange for payment from Caligo. But one look at Lumina’s beautiful, smiling baby face and Scylla couldn’t go through with the whole plan. So, to keep Lumina selamat, peti deposit keselamatan from Caligo’s evil ways, Scylla raised her far away from the istana, castle as her own niece—and loved her just as much as if she were.
Aunt Scylla shook her head free of the terrible memories. If only she could find some way to tell Lumina the truth. But every time she tried, she Lost her nerve. She loved Lumina with all her heart, and telling her would only hurt her. Aunt Scylla replaced Lumina’s pearl baby bracelet in her keepsake box and shut the lid tightly.

Across the sea at the royal palace, Caligo plotted once again for his son to rule the seas. It had been seventeen years since the princess disappeared, and he was getting impatient.
Since Lumina’s disappearance, the king and Queen had plunged into a deep sadness. They locked themselves away in the palace, refusing to see anyone atau perform any of their royal duties. The kingdom missed their beloved king and queen.
Caligo didn’t care whether the king and «queen ever resumed their royal duties—just as long as they named Fergis the heir to the throne.
“Your Gracious Majesties, all I ask is that anda consent to appear in public just one night. It’s been seventeen long years. Your subjects need you. Your kingdom needs you. Dare I say it, I need you,” Caligo pleaded in a slimy voice.
The king sighed a heavy sigh. “Caligo, I’ve told anda many times. Queen Lorelei and I—”
Caligo put up a hand to stop the king. He pretended to wipe a tear from his eye. “Of course, of course, and like you, I am inconsolable with grief. But we simply must face the fact that with anda and the Queen having no heir, the kingdom will one hari pass to your nephew—my gallant son, Fergis.”
Shaggy-haired Fergis knelt in the corner, lovingly tending to a bunga box of sea plants. He beamed goofily at his father and pointed to an exquisite bloom. “Look, Father, look!” he cried. “A Crinoidea Porphyras! The first one «of the season! Oh, rapture! Wait until I tell the botany club.”
Caligo rolled his eyes. Fergis was nothing like him. But he was Caligo’s only shot at gaining all of the power that came with the royal throne. Whether Fergis wanted to atau not, he would become king.
Caligo focused his attention once again on the king and queen. “Now that he has come of age, tradition dictates that we confer upon the heir apparent our royal medallion, the Pearl of the Sea.” He eyed a glass case behind the royal couple. Inside the case lay a kalung with one enormous luminescent pearl hanging from it.
The Queen fingered the locket she wore around her own neck, close to her heart. It held a picture of her Lost baby girl. She nodded solemnly. “I’m afraid Caligo is right. Perhaps it is time.”
The king nodded in agreement.
Caligo clapped his hands. “Excellent!” he cried, sounding a bit too excited. “And since he’ll also need to choose a suitable wife, we’ll give a royal ball. We’ll invite the most eligible young Duyung of the kingdom—for a chance to be my son’s queen!”
He glanced at Fergis, who was whispering to a blue sea lily. “Hello, Neocrinus decorus. How are anda feeling today? A little blue? Ha, ha—get it?” He chuckled to himself.
The king rubbed his eyes. Fergis was not anyone’s idea of a gallant prince. But he would have to do.

Chapter 3

Aunt Scylla knitted her brows in concentration. She could hear Lumina and Kuda outside playing hide-and-seek as they looked for sea pearls. Carefully, Scylla poured a syrupy red liquid from one bamboo dish into another dish full of blue liquid. She had to get this latest scale-smoothing potion just right for a very high-maintenance client. Purple steam rose high into the air in the shape of a viperfish. Perfect. The steamy ikan wound its way around a nearby houseplant, causing the plant to wither and die. Looks like I still have some work to do, Scylla thought.
Just then, she heard a knock on the door. She waved the steamy viperfish back into its crucible and quickly returned all of her ingredients to the cupboard. She opened the front door and peered out. Nobody was there. That’s strange, she thought. Suddenly, an belut dangled in front of her face from the bahagian, atas of the doorway. He eyed her crazily.
“Ahhhhh!” Scylla cried in shock.
“Oh, my dear, did I frighten you?” the belut whispered menacingly. He let out a loud cackle.
“Who are you, and what do anda want?” Scylla snapped.
The belut slithered along the doorframe, enjoying the suspense. “Murray at your service,” he hissed, bowing deeply. “Merely a humble messenger. I come bearing an ‘eel-mail’ from an old friend of yours: Caligo.”
Hearing Caligo’s name, Scylla jumped back. She had tried so hard to put him—and her dreadful past—from her mind. “How did anda find me here?” she asked.
“Oh, I have a certain gift for finding those who don’t want to be found,” Murray replied. He slinked past Scylla into the living room.
“Hey! Out!” Scylla commanded.
Murray ignored her. “I admit tracking anda down was a particular challenge. But my Bottom Feeders Network came through. Then it was simply a slither here, a slither there, and—voilà!—here I am.” He swam under the sofa, kerusi panjang just as Scylla tried to grab him.
“All right, you’ve found me,” Scylla replied with a sigh. “What is it anda want?”
Murray reappeared. “A simple request, really. My employer is once again in need of your, um, professional services.”
Scylla’s eyes narrowed. “Services? What services?”
“It seems Caligo has grown a bit impatient waiting for His Majesty the King to die of natural causes. He has decided, therefore, to speed up the process a tad,” Murray announced darkly.
Scylla nodded, understanding. “Ahh, those services.
Murray slithered around her feet and tried to settle himself in a nearby chair. “Precisely. He has convinced His Majesty to open up the istana, castle for a royal ball, at which time the king will confer the Pearl of the Sea medallion on Caligo’s son. His Majesty will then roti bakar the boy with a cup of merberry nectar.”
Scylla eyed Murray with suspicion. “Which Caligo wants me to poison,” she concluded.
“Exactly,” Murray replied, slinking out of the chair. “The king croaks, the son is crowned, everybody wins. . . . Well, maybe not the king. Don’t anda Cinta a happy ending?”
Scylla had heard enough. “Well, anda can tell your ‘employer’ that I’m no longer in the poisoning business. So unless you’re interested in buying some Gill Glistener atau Scale Brighter, GET OUT!” She pointed to the door.
Murray did not budge. “He berkata you’d say that,” he hissed. “I am therefore authorized to issue the following threat: ‘Do it, atau I’ll tell everyone anda killed the princess.’ ”
Scylla gasped. “He wouldn’t dare!” she whispered fiercely.
Murray flashed a sinister smile. “He berkata you’d say that, too. I am therefore authorized to respond: ‘Would so.’ ”
Scylla’s eyes blazed with fury. She had made some mighty big mistakes in her life, but Caligo was truly evil. If he issued a threat, it was likely to come true. She couldn’t risk putting Lumina in any sort of danger. Scylla had no choice. “Fine. If it’s poison Caligo wants, it’s poison he’ll get.”
“A wise decision,” Murray remarked. “Here, you’ll need this invitation to the ball. We’ll leave the sordid details in your expert hands. After all, it’s really all in the ‘execution.’ Wouldn’t anda agree?” The belut chuckled smugly as he swam toward the door. “Now don’t be late—eight p.m., Saturday, at the castle.”
Just then, Scylla heard another voice. “Castle?”
Lumina floated in through the open doorway. Scylla winced. Things were about to get «complicated.
“What about the castle?” Lumina asked excitedly.
Murray flashed a curious grin. “Well, well, and who is this?” he hissed, swimming around Lumina to examine her.
“Hi!” Lumina berkata cheerfully. “I’m—”
Scylla cut her off. “—late for dinner! Our guest was just leaving.” She pushed Murray toward the door.
“But, Aunt Scylla!” Lumina protested.
“Aunt Scylla?” Murray asked, raising an eyebrow. “I assumed anda lived alone.”
“You assumed wrong. Get out,” Scylla ordered, shoving the belut through the door and slamming it in his face. She hoped he hadn’t figured out who Lumina really was.

Chapter 4

Aunt Scylla,” Lumina berkata excitedly, “what was your friend talking about? Did he mean the royal castle? Are anda going there? Can I go? Pleeeease?” Lumina could hardly contain her curiosity. After all, it wasn’t every hari that someone visited the sea cave and spoke of the royal palace. She had to know everything!
Aunt Scylla rubbed her temples.
Lumina could tell her aunt didn’t want to talk about it, but she couldn’t help herself. “I heard it has golden doors and pearl chandeliers and a beautiful throne! It must be wonderful, and I’ve always wanted to go there and so does Kuda and—”
“Stop!” Aunt Scylla interrupted. “Absolutely not! I’ve told anda how dangerous the journey is! I do it to sell my potions, but it’s far too risky for a young girl alone.”
“But I wouldn’t be alone!” Lumina protested. “I’d have you! And Kuda!”
“And burning api, kebakaran coral! And vampire squid! And poisonous stonefish!” Aunt Scylla said, shaking her head.
Lumina pouted. Kuda looked terrified.
Aunt Scylla softened. “Lumina, neither of anda has ever been an inch outside this reef. Believe me; anda wouldn’t last two seconds, even with me to keep an eye on you.”
“But—” Lumina tried.
“It’s out of the question,” Aunt Scylla declared, floating out of the room.
“I think that’s a no,” Kuda joked, trying to put a smile on Lumina’s crestfallen face.
Lumina let out a miserable sigh. Why did everything interesting have to be off-limits? She longed to see the world beyond the reef. She wanted to travel, see sights she had only dreamed of. But Aunt Scylla thought she was safest at home. Where was the adventure in that?

The seterusnya morning, Lumina and Kuda watched glumly as Aunt Scylla packed for her trip to the palace. Maybe if I look just sad enough, Aunt Scylla will take me with her, Lumina thought.
But she was wrong. “You be good,” her aunt instructed as she floated toward the door. “I’ll be back in a few days. And please, both of you, stick close to home.”
She kissed them good-bye and took off into the great, wide sea.
Lumina shut the door behind her and sighed. Now what?
“Want to play Tic-Tac-Tuna?” Kuda asked. Lumina shook her head. She was too disappointed to do much of anything. Lost in thought, she straightened a stack of papers on «a nearby table. “Hmm. What’s this?” she asked. She picked up a large, glossy envelope and opened it. “It’s an invitation!” she cried. “Aunt Scylla’s not just going to the castle! She’s invited to the royal ball!” Lumina read the details on the invitation. “And she can’t get in without this!”
Lumina waved the invitation in the air. She raced to the door and flung it open. “Aunt Scylla!” she called. “You forgot your—” She looked both ways but her aunt was already gone. Suddenly, she got an idea. “Kuda,” she began, a twinkle in her eye. “We really should bring this to Aunt Scylla, don’t anda think?”
“No, I don’t think,” Kuda replied, eyeing her warily.
But Lumina’s face glowed with excitement. “But she’ll need it to get into the ball. So when anda think about it, it’s really our duty to go after her—all the way to the istana, castle if we have to!”
Kuda shook her head. “Were anda listening to Aunt Scylla? Remember the dangerous journey?”
“You mean the burning whatsit and the poisonous thing-a-ma-poo?” Lumina replied, already making plans in her head.
“It was burning api, kebakaran coral and poisonous stonefish and anda know it,” Kuda declared.
“What about the castle, and the king and queen, and the beautiful mermaids, and all the things we’ve always wanted to see?” Lumina said, practically Singing with anticipation.
“But we were just playing!” Kuda protested. “I never thought we’d really do it!”
Lumina knelt in front of Kuda. “Don’t anda see?” she asked earnestly. “This is our big chance! Oh, Kuda, we’ve got to go! We’ve just got to!”
“But . . . ,” Kuda started, even though she knew it had already been decided. There was nothing to do but go along to make sure Lumina stayed safe.
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