The pair discussed what the sea hag told Pettic and Stannia, and Kinne decided he would go with Pettic.
_You"ll never find the queen"s cave otherwise,_ he told the human, _and speed is of the essence._
_You"ll never find the queen"s cave otherwise,__and speed is of the essence._The next morning, Pettic and Kinne set off for the sea hag queen"s cave. It was quite a long way, Kinne said. It would take them three days there and three days back. That was assuming they met with no obstacles.
They each took two of the bags, one of which was shark skin and the other crocodile. Kinne told Pettic that the merfolk liked crocodile meat as a change from fish, but they were dangerous to hunt. When they caught one, they used every bit. The teeth they used as jewellery and the stomach as a storage jar
