The Cowboy and the Mermaid

The Cowboy and the Mermaid

Dwight didn't sleep well he was so excited and just a little bit nervous about the deep dive. He finally crawled out of bed and started his exercise routine hoping that would chill him out. Meanwhile, Lorelei is up chatting with KoolAid who seems a bit sad. Lorelei wonders if KoolAid needs a special friend. KoolAid looks cheerful after they discuss that.
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Dwight and Lorelei meet at the road between the two houses. Lorelei is excited as she has a gift for Dwight. An underwater camera for him to use to take pictures. She is sure he will be better at it since he actually likes the techno stuff. Dwight is very touched and gives Lorelei a long kiss thanking her for the gift and kissing her good morning.
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Dwight and Lorelei jog through the neighborhood to get to the closest point to the dive lot. They wade out into the water and swim to the dive area. As they get to the spot Lorelei notices two sharks swimming around. She sends out a message to them to stay away from Dwight. The sharks continue to circle the area, but stay away from Lorelei and Dwight respecting her wishes.
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They dive down into the depths and Dwight realizes just how shallow the previous dives were as they go deeper and deeper to get to the bottom.
Lorelei watches as he looks around and then guides him to the rock with all the strange markings on it. Dwight examines it thoroughly, takes several pictures and even digs around in the ocean floor around it to be sure they are not missing any part of a message that might be buried.
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He examines all the other rocks that are in the formation. A few have a symbol on them, but, most are just unmarked. He takes many pictures of the formations and a few of the individual rocks. He thinks to himself that these were not just randomly placed. They have a purpose, but, what is the purpose?
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There is one cave near the formation. Lorelei has explored it and found no clues in it but encourages Dwight to explore the cave as well. Dwight enters the cave and turns the bright light on that is attached to his dive mask. He looks for any similar rock formations and examines the walls for any glyphs. He does not find any clues, but does find a few shells that he collects and will give to Lorelei for her dive job.
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Meanwhile, Lorelei befriends a funny little clownfish that has been darting back and forth around her.
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Dwight opens a treasure chest near a ruin that has a strange picture of a merman on it. He also takes a picture of the ruin and merman. Perhaps it will be a clue to help solve the mystery.
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Dwight is running out of air so it is time to go back to the surface. After showering and changing, Lorelei hurries over to Dwight's home. He greets her with a loving kiss and she returns it with pleasure. Dwight serves the leftover pasta and fish dish for supper and while eating tells her he received another book from Rafe Sinclair. "I sent him an email telling him about the glyphs and that we had been searching his and other books to find out what they meant. He is very interested in helping us, but, understands that you want to do this yourself. He thought this information would be most helpful. It has some rare ancient languages that he has found and studied in the past, but decided not to publish. This is from his private collection and of course, he wants it sent back when we are finished with it. He would love to know what we find and if we need further help from him he gave me his private number so we can call him."
"That was very nice of him to do that. I read in his other book that he is a scholar as well as an explorer. He sounds a true gentleman that he would send this book to help us out and not want anything except the knowledge of what we found and his book back."
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Dwight shows Lorelei a few of the pictures that he found that look very similar to the glyphs on the rocks. "Once I get the pictures printed out we can start comparing the pictures."
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Lorelei agrees that some of the glyphs in the book are identical to what is on the rock. Rafe's book even provides the basic meanings of some of the symbols based on his years of studying ancient languages. She compliments Dwight on his intelligence to make direct contact with Rafe Sinclair and finding exactly what they needed. One compliment leads to another and pretty soon neither are interested in looking at the book or printing out pictures. (at this point, I sent Lorelei home to her bed and Dwight to his as one of them got the risky woohoo in the queue and even though I am letting them be autonomous to a degree....that degree does not include risky woohoo! :lol: I'm very happy that they are so attracted to each other though.)
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