"It's in the lake?"
"Yes..."
"In the lake? Underneath all the water, in the lake?"
"Is there an echo in here? God... Yes, for the fifth time yes. It's out there in the middle of the lake, probably at the bottom of it."
"Well... Technically it's a Loch."
With one hand crossed over his chest and the other arm resting on the first whilst supporting his chin, Seth tried to tone out Alfie's irritating questions, Cynthia's understandably irritated responses and Alexandra's semantic correction. They had been standing here for ten minutes since he dropped the revelation onto his party, and some of them were taking a little more time to come to terms with it than others.
In that time, other than gaining a steadily growing headache, Seth had sent Omelette on a little scouting mission. The Wyvern had flown out to the exact position that Seth's senses were directing him to, yet reported nothing but open water. There was nothing that he could see, which meant one of two things.
