A brand-new scene appeared once more in the mist, and the black light in the image even threatened to dye the very edges of the white fog black.
This time it no longer showed the Little Mermaid's actions step by step; instead the scene went straight to a patch of darkness, where the "Witch" Old Lady Sianod was hiding behind a table, speaking with the Little Mermaid, whose tail was flicking nonstop.
The flicking tail conveyed the Little Mermaid Princess's unease and panic.
Old Lady Sianod's features were those of a typically kindly old woman, yet now, wrapped in a black robe, hood drawn over her head, a black cauldron beside her boiling and constantly bubbling up green foam, she could not look like a good person no matter how one saw her.
The two of them seemed to be talking, bubbles constantly rising from their lips. But Shard, sitting by the campfire, could not hear their voices, so he said:
