In a secure room somewhere in the palace stood a giant fish tank large enough to accommodate two whales.
Inside that fish tank, a slender silver blue shark cut through the water currents like a hot knife to butter.
Waves formed, spilling over the edge of the tank and flooding the room floor. No one was here, no one but the shark.
His movements were quick of full of agitation.
If anyone made the mistake of walking in, they would become his dinner.
Kai had no idea how long he had been swimming for. All he knew was the tank he had grown so accustomed to no longer felt warm and comforting the way it used to.
He switched back to his human form, floating on the surface of the water, his eyes focused on the impossibly high ceilings that seemed to grow even further apart from him.
It had been a month.
A full thirty days, and the Princess hadn't stepped foot in this room once.
She used to love this place. It was her second favorite place, next to her laboratory.
