Ursula [A Poor Unfortunate Soul]

11. A New Home

Holding Morgana in one arm, a bag in the other. Ursula came upon a cave. This will have to do for a while, she thought entering the dark, purple cavern. The 'cave' was actually a long-dead sea monster's corpse, of some kind.

The uvula and stomach still an tacked. All other inner organs, if it had any, had been removed. Ursula reached into her bag to get the blanket she had packed earlier. Laying it out on the floor, as she wasn't about to lay her sister down on sticky, moldy blood.

"Thanks sis" Morgana said, still week. Holding her sister's hand, not quite as cold as before, but could still do with some warmth.

That's when she looked over to a corner to see two baby eels, hiding under a rock.

Ursula smiled at them, having not seen something so innocent in so long. Holding out a bit of kelp for them. Coming out of their hiding place she could see they were actually electric eels. Lowering their spark as they reached her hand. "Thank you for not shocking me" Ursula laughed to herself. "Your welcome" they said in unison. Their voices, like that of a snake's. If a snake had a voice.

"Could you help my sister, please?" Ursula asked, motioning over to Morgana, still cold. They swam closer to Morganna. Inspecting her, lowering their spark more and more, until it was almost nothing. Swimming around her, warming her up, little by little.

While they were busy helping her sister, Ursula decided to take a look at the tablet. The headline was printed in a language she could read. But the rest was a long dead language she couldn't read.

The headline read 'To command' 

The rest was worn, like it had been written centuries ago. Though when Ursula ran her fingers over the letters, the words turned from the dead language to a more modern language. Shocked she threw it to the side, where it floated to the floor.

The eels looked over, while Ursula motions away to signify she was fine, and they continued to help Morganna. Picking the tablet up again, she began to read the words, quietly to herself, or what she could. The words were still worn, and barely readable.

She read the inscription aloud, that seemed more or less like a contract. Ending its passage with a document signing as a closing:

                                                                      Signed forever_______________

Just as she finished reading, a pen in the shape of a fish skeleton appared in front of her. She thought of Gaston, and of how their life could be. She took the skeleton pen, and signed her name.

                                                        'Signed forever Ursula Carrol'

She read back to herself, and faded into the stone material. Somewhat giving a meaning to the phrase "set in stone".

Using her mother's last name, she signed her life over to this contract. A flash of light is all she could see, for what felt like forever. Until finally the tablet released her, and fell to the floor along with her.

Morgana, who must had been feeling better, rushed to her sister's side. "What happened?" She asked. In all honesty Ursula didn't know what happened. Or what to tell her sister.

Looking over to the tablet, Ursula could see it had gone blank.