Allen?" I tapped him to wake up.
I, myself, had woken up very confused.
Allen and I scrolled through page after page of every book he owned, but hadn't made so much progress, establishing his claims of my being a mermaid.
Since Allen was so sure, we didn't relent in searching and eventually, we both slept off, hours later.
I had no idea how long we were asleep for, as I equally had no idea of how long we were flipping through pages, but considering the dark sky, I was guessing both exercises took us almost an entire day.
"Allen?" I tapped him again.
"I'm up!" He was startled and jumped back into consciousness.
"Right," he said, "I'm well rested, and we can continue," he said.
I pulled myself out of bed and walked towards the small door in the room, which I was hoping
