I was treated for a torn ankle, eye irritation, possible infection and of course a migraine. I was deeply troubled about no one wanting to take out the Sarcosuchuses from under the Nile, but Sobek reassured me that they were now in deep hibernation and will not wake up for a few centuries.

I didn't believe him.

But I did since he swore on his crocodile head and the River Styx.

But I also hoped they would suffocate themselves from running out of air under the riverbed, although that really was pretty cruel. Then we would have a corpse to drag out. Sobek reassured me that they will not die either and that the tranquilizer he used had some magical properties to it.

I didn't believe that either.

Yet I didn't have a choice. After thanking the merfolk for aiding in the crocodile menace I was quickly escorted back to the palace where Iris staring to work on my ankle. I didn't dare to look at it. To make things worse, I also got a cold and had to drink some bitter medicine for both the risk of infection and a cold.

Isis did a good yet painful job in turning my leg into "As-if-never-bitten-by-a-forty-foot-crocodile". But it hurt. She fixed the tissues all right but my bones were set all wrong. It was done all by magic or coarse. Then she twisted my foot to bring it back to normal.

'Mistakes happen,' she said. My leg was fine, but it felt numb after all of that magic.

Isis said that it will take a day for me to feel it back again.

If I had enough strenght, I would hace yelled at Sobek. But I ny cold didn't get any better and I had to spend my evening sneezing.

I said thanks to the merfolk. They pretty much did a voctorious battle cry, stomping their spears in the surface of the water. I sneezed on their behalf. Before Sobek wnt on his merry way, I dragged him into a corner.

'Any more crazy experiments like this again, and you will be stuck feeding on rats in the Imprisonatorium!'

Sobek gave a cheeky grin. 'I've heard that you are one that stodies the secrets of modern science. Surely you understand the urge. The curiousity...'

'No I don't,' I said. 'I have no idea why I would want to recreate a prehistoric being...'

He raised an eyebrow.

'It is cool... but. Too much trouble.'

He bowed. 'As you wish, your highness.'

But before he turned to leave, he asked, 'What about something smaller, like a Velociraptor, you know, they are small and_'

'The only thing I will allow you to recreate is a dodo.'

He disappointedly shook his head and disappeared into the Nile.

I wanted to thank Slitzer for saving me, or at least trying to do so but he was already gone by the time I was done. I have to admit, he isn't that sort of bad for a horse who drowns people. After finishing all of the businesses, I spent the rest of the evening staring in my room while bustling through a pile of tissues.

I just couldn't stay here anymore. I walked out of my room and knocked on Andrew's door.

'I'm going home,' I said with a sniff.

I wasn't expecting him to open the door to meet me, but he did. He must have been taking a nap since his hair was much messier that it usually was. 'Fine,' he said.

I turned to leave.

'Just don't do something as reckless like that again...'

'Huh?'

'You... worried me.'

I chuckled. 'That's sweet.'

'I'm serious,' he said. 'One day the queen is there and after a few days she dies by recklessly jumping into a river filled with crocodiles. Think about how to want to die.'

'Yeah, right,' I said. I still don't get him. Well, like any human being would, I couldn't blame him for being worried. This was the second time I almost died drowning. I really need to learn to swim.

After shifting, I reached home just in time before Mom did.

'Oh my! You look like a wreck!'

I was.

I drank hot tea even though Nymphea gave me hot cocoa a while ago. Then we ate dinner and I went straight to bed hoping my cold will be better tomorrow. But it didn't. It got worse the next day.

To make things worse, Mom went on about how I don't take my medicine on time. I hate those pills. They weren't bitter but they were a pain to sort out and then it was followed by a lecture about how I should take care of myself.

Anyway, she allowed me to stay at home; which was the best thing that happened to me ever since the crazy Sightless gig.

The first thing I was planning to do when she left was to remove the phone line so that Zeus won't be able to contact me. But I hesitated. I quite felt guilty since, hay, I'm queen aren't I? I should be there is something happens.

Trevelyan stared at my face as I stood in front of the telephone, still wondering about my decision.

'Your mother night call,' said Trevelyan.

I nodded and gave up the idea. The last thing I want was my mom suspecting me of something and rushing home in the middle of a court case. I then went straight to bed, only to find that the fairies had already arranged it.

'Thanks,' I said as I snuggled in again to mess it up. 'Wake me up if something happens.'

The nodded and went out.

I was at peace.

Not a single soul bothered me till noon. Then I tried to read one of my biology textbook but the words simply slipped away. The cold was killing me and I fell asleep again. It was sad to say that it was the only day where I could have some peace of mind for after that, my life became a neverending marathon.

This, my dear readers was my daily routine.

01. Wake up in the morning

02. Go to school

03. Come home

04. Stay in Sightless, running around solving the stupidest of problems with my homework in hand

05. Come home before mom

06. GO back to Sightless again after the house becomes silent

07. Come back at 3.00 a.m. in the morning

08. Sleep for four hours

And so the restless cycle repeated every single day. I never thought that people will have so many problems. The more I solved, the more they came; Dragons fighting, magicians dueling, a rampaging beast, some prince or deity fighting with a fellow prince or deity, magic that went terribly wrong, fairies that do mischief, some robbery in some place I don't even care about and so on.

I wasn't the only one who got busy. Andrew had to deal with a lot of physical labor like slaying beasts or yelling at them. Well, he yelled when it came to dragons, the rest was done by me. I used my voice so often that I didn't find it creepy anymore like it used you. I yelled at deities, magicians, fairies, even seers. We chased the Minotaur together (it went on bulldozing around town and I almost got killed for the fifty second time), solved rampaging gods who fought over something so childish I felt like bashing their heads together and we listened to complaints, a lot of complaints. Well, I was left with figuring them out since I was not good at combat that it was the only thing I could do without giving him a heavy load.

Most of the time, Andrew occasionally came to school asking me what to do. At times I felt like yelling at him to ask Zeus or Athena and so something but he looked so desperate and it made me feel sorry for him. He was in Sightless most of the days, skipping school. But he never missed our lunch break. He never missed lunch break that was the time for our War Council until Isabelle crashed in and while we hoped that she would be late if we didn't solve a peculiar problem.

While the bond between me and Andrew grew due to our pending hardships, my friendship with Isabelle crumbled down. I barely talked to her and got so frustrated when she started about her daily routine that I snapped at her than usual. Most days, I would feel guilty and then try to make myself feel better my convincing myself that she was being an utter nuisance. But there was always this little voice that said that she was alone, just like me before I got dragged into this whole Invisible business. She lost her mom two years ago and it weighed heavily on her, being the only child. Because we were raised my single parents, we understood each other and we were the only child of the family. Once I discovered the immense company I found in Sightless, I sort of forgot her. I always convinced myself that they were a pain, but deep inside, I enjoyed being talked at most of the time.

Some days, I'd leave school just to catch a runaway criminal. I didn't even feel guilty after a few weeks. I got so much near death situations - like when this card manipulating evil magician almost slit my throat with a queen of hearts but got heroically rescues by Andrew's sword- that Athena recommended me to do some defense classes.

At normal instances, I would have said, 'Awesome!' But instead I frowned and said, 'Then invent a damn time machine!'

After about two months of the coronation, one of the girls in school sort of stopped in front of me and said, 'Wow, Amethyst! Are you dieting of something?'

I shook my head. It only clicked onto me later that I had severely lost weight.

Well, at least something good came out from my pathetic lifestyle.

But well, it was nothing compares to when my grades plummeted down. Athena was the first and far most to panic.

'Oh, no, Amethyst!' she said. 'You are going to get a proper education!'

And so a notice was released that the queen will be met ion between 10.00 to 12.00 p.m. (in London time) and I was told to spend my entire time to work in my grades unless an emergency (which happens at least once a day).

But that wasn't my only problem, Isabelle and Andrew became arch enemies. They were like fire and ice whenever they met. Isabelle already thinks that Andrew is a delinquent (since he dresses like one... almost) and believed that he was stealing me from her. Meanwhile, Andrew thought her to be a nuisance. They never speak, but I can always feel the tension whenever they met.

Andrew then would go about how nosey she was once she was gone.

I warned him not to get on her bad side, but Andrew being Andrew, he never listened neither did he even care.

And then there was Trevelyan. Well, Trevelyan following around sure was a pain but he was the only person who reminded me of stuff, so I was glad he followed me around. I felt guilty every time I asked him to remind me this and bring me that and schedule this and all that. After spending two months in Sightless, I got used to the bossy attitude I was expected to have and everyone did everything without me even asking. I hated it. But I knew that I had to maintain some sort of dignity and pride when it came to some annoying council members and seers, especially deities.

But the most intriguing case I had to solve was when Trevelyan came shouting at me in the middle of class asking to me come to Sightless immediately. I was in the middle of a physics practical and lost count of the periodic time of the oscillating pendulum bob.

'What is it now?' I hissed.

'Excuse me?' said Isabelle.

'I wasn't talking to you!' I snapped back at her. Then I remembered that she couldn't see him. I grinned. 'Sorry.'

Trevelyan panted. 'Horus... Seth... Big... Fight....'

Oookay, now that is an emergency.

I looked around. Everyone was busy.

'Amy, what's wrong with you?'

'I think I need to go to the washroom,' I said. I quickly left the stop watch on the table and ran out, following Trevelyan. Then I shifted right when I ran out of the lab door and appeared in the throne room.