The desk, somehow, had turned into some sort of screen. On it, Kipo watched her friends read the letter, get carried out by the umbrella, and then went their separate ways. Kipo still had a bad feeling about this (and also a little guilt, because clearly, her friends didn't know she was watching their every move), but she kept her feelings to herself. The man in front of her, who had previously introduced himself as 'Gale', clearly didn't want to hear it.

"So?" Gale said, and Kipo startled. The room, apart from her friends on the screen, had been silent for a while.

"So... what?" Kipo asked, frowning. "Wait, I want to help all of them, how can I if their all going at the same time?"

"You don't need to worry about that," Gale told her. "This cabin... it is above time. We can go through each of your friends missions one at a time, though we can only do each one once."

"Above... what?" Kipo stared at Gale. It felt odd giving a pair of creepy eyes a name, but, well, whatever. Staring at him, and expecting to see something was already a headache. "How does that work?"

Gale seemed to glare at her. "Trust me, you don't need to know. Just pick a team to follow first. And quickly."

Kipo's brow furrowed, and after a minute, she pointed to Luz and Coraline's figure. The screen perpetually held a birds eye view, and it was especially pixelated, but Coraline's blue hair and Luz's hat were especially obvious.

"Them," Kipo said. It was random, but if she really was going to go through all of them... then it didn't matter anyway, right? Kipo looked determinedly up at Gale. "I'll help Luz and Coraline first."

"At least you were quick," Gale said, and the screen zoomed in on Coraline and Luz, moving towards the ocean. Kipo could even see some of Six's white fur poking out from Luz's hat.

Despite the fact the roads were straight and unobscured, Coraline and Luz lost track of their friends quickly. From the moment they left on their way, the group disappeared quickly, and they were along on an open road. Though Coraline suspected they wouldn't be for long. She could already smell salt in the wind, and she could see a long of blue on the horizon, something she either didn't notice on the crossroads, or wasn't there. When Coraline thought about Mira said, about this world not making sense when you thought too hard about it, and she suspected it was the latter.

Coraline sighed, rubbing her head. From the night world to this one, it's like everything's gotten worse, and more irritatingly, more confusing. Coraline didn't know what the stuff she was noticing implied, but she didn't like it.

Beside her, Luz was chatting away happily, talking about... what was it? Oh, magic, Coraline realized when she listened closer. That made sense, Luz was a witch in training, or at least was one, and right now, she was eagerly analyzing the differences between this world's magic and the magic in her book and in the Boiling Isle.

She was wasting her breath, Coraline realized as she started listening in. Listing the similarities would take a fifth of the time.

Coraline also noticed that Luz was still carrying Six, sound asleep on her shoulder, looking very relaxed with her eyes closed. At this point, Coraline was more impressed than annoyed that the weird fox-dog creature was still with them. Through the flood and the umbrella ride... Luz must be working overtime to keep her... friend? Mentor? Safe.

Still, though...

"Do you just going to let Six sleep there forever?" Coraline asked her when Luz took a breath. Luz looked startled, and Coraline pointed to Six. "Why do you let her stay up there all the time? She's just freeloading, you know, sleeping while you do all the work."

"She, well..." Luz glanced down at Six, who, to Coraline's surprise, shifted around.

"I'm not asleep, Miss Coraline," Six grumbled, opening up her eyes and glaring at her. Coraline frowned, and then glared right back.

"Then why don't you walk?" she shot back. "You've got legs."

"My legs are CLEARLY a lot smaller than yours! You long legs don't appreciate the effort it takes to walk around," Six snorted.

"You've also got magic, though!" Coraline argued. "So, why-?"

"H-Hey, Coraline, it's alright, I don't mind carrying Six," Luz interrupted, quickly. "Seriously, she weighs, like nothing, and she's warm, too, like a scarf!"

"I... really?" Coraline blinked. Oh, well, there went all of her arguments. "Well. If you're sure..."

"It's fine," Luz assured her. "I don't mind. Trust me, Coraline, Six does a lot for me. She taught me everything I know about magic in this world, and it's really interesting! It's so different from the Boiling Isle, and even though I think the one in the Boiling Isles is cooler-."

Six snorted, and Luz sent her an apologetic look, but she didn't take it back.

"This one is still fun, too! I can do a lot more in this world then in the Boiling Isle!" Luz finished, and Coraline hummed. She supposed that made sense, but... actually, she had no more arguments, so instead, she shook her head, needing to change the subject.

Luckily, the perfect distraction came up just in time.

All of their attention was drawn to their feet as the road underneath them disappeared, replaced by grainy sand. The beach stretched out before them, and beyond that, an ocean spanning as far as the eye could see. Wind blew across the waves, and it made Coraline and Luz blink back tears as salty air blew into their eyes. The beach was sunny and perfect like in TV, with bright sun and warmth, it was more windy, cold and gray. A disappointment, really, Coraline had been looking forward to a nice beach after these last few nightmare days.

Of course the beach would be miserable, too.

"Well, now what?" Coraline asked, some of her irritation leaking into her voice. "What do we do now?"

"This sea doesn't look very magical," Luz noted, sounding disappointed. "It just looks... grey."

Six came them both a irritated look. "Well, that's because you both are nearly a mile away from it. Go closer."

Coraline and Luz exchanged a look; Coraline, with one of annoyance, and Luz, with one of intrigue. They both moved forward, over the sand and towards the water. The sand quickly squished into their shoes, and soon, it was grating on their feet, making walking difficult. It was slightly damp, and clung to them tightly, even when Coraline did a stupid little dance to try and get it off. It worked... for about half a second.

Luckily, they reached the water edge soon, and Coraline immediately collapsed down, taking off her shoes and shaking them out. But before she put them back on again, she hesitated. If she learned anything, they'd be filled up in no time. Coraline left her shoes off, for now.

Meanwhile, Luz was leaning over the edge of the water, peering down in it. And, in the depths, she saw it, and her eyes widened.

"Oh!" she cried. Underneath the water, the was an unnatural green colour, moving with the waves. Luz could pick it out immediately, because it was so odd. It wasn't algae, it wasn't the natural colour of the water, it was a colour that looked like it didn't belong. It was a colour Luz hadn't seen in nature very often, it looked... manufactured. Luz frowned. "I... I do see it."

"Good," Six said. "There. We ARE in the right place."

"Yeah... but now what?" Coraline asked them. She had seen the unnatural green colour, too, and had scooted a fair bit away from the ocean. "Kipo's letter had said that it was 'underneath the magical sea' or something like that, right? How are we supposed to get down there?"

"This is where I come in!" Luz cheered, waving her fingers around like a madman. "I'm a witch, remember? I can just move the ocean-."

"That's not possible," Six shut down Luz quickly, and Luz seemed taken aback. "I apologize, Miss Luz, but you're not strong enough."

"Huh? Well, maybe I guess..." Luz hummed thoughtfully. She didn't seem insulted at Six's words. "But there's so much magic down there! If I use that..."

"You can't just say she's not strong enough," Coraline pointed out, glaring at Six as she spoke. "I think you should try, Luz. Don't just let Six tell you what to do!"

Six frowned at Coraline before sighing. "Not this again... First of all, Miss Luz, the magic in there is a different type of magic than what you use. Second of all, water is much harder to control than shadows or solids, Miss Coraline. We'd barely get two paces out before Miss Luz would lose control of the water and drown us all."

"..." Coraline couldn't tell whether she could follow this conversation or not. Maybe she should have paid better attention to Luz's magic lesson earlier. "...Yeah, well..."

"No, she's probably right. I haven't ever tried this before," Luz admitted, kneeling down by the ocean. Coraline watched her closely, and despite being able to guess what Luz was about to try, she couldn't believe her eyes when Luz raised her arms, and by some invisible force, a bubble of water rose up between her hands, and Luz held it up there for a couple seconds before it shook violently and dropped back to the ocean. Luz turned a sheepish face to Coraline. "See?"

"Huh," Coraline said, not really willing to give up, but she didn't have anything else to say. "Well, if that doesn't work, then what?"

"We'll have to find a way around it," Six replied dryly.

"There's a dock over there," Luz noted, pointing to the left. When Coraline turned, she saw she was right. A little bit away from them, there was an old, rickety looking dock over the waves. "We should probably go there first."

"Aren't docks for boats?" Coraline asked her. "We can't get under the water with those. Not if we want to be alive when we do it, anyway."

"There isn't anywhere else to go, Miss Coraline," Six huffed, and Coraline looked around to find she was right. Coraline grumbled to herself, but she didn't argue anymore.

"Fine, let's go to the docks," she huffed.

"There might be a submarine there," Luz suggested, and Coraline bit back her sarcastic comment. They both started moving towards the docks, Coraline barefoot, and Luz soon following suit. The sand felt... uncomfortable under their feet, but unless Luz could fly them over there (she couldn't), they were forced to grin and bear it. When Coraline looked over, she thought Six looked especially smug.

Coraline glared at her. She'd love to fight with Six again, but honestly, they probably had more pressing matters to attend. "Hey... what do you mean about the... 'different types of magic' thing back there?"

"Oh, yeah," Luz said as if she'd forgotten all about it. "The Boiling Isle had something like that, too, though it was only like that because some jerk decided to separate them. I hadn't realized this world had something like that, too, though."

"That's because I hadn't told you about it," Six told her, and Coraline gave her a suspicious look.

"Weren't you guys wondering around together for months?" Coraline asked. "You never said anything about it?"

"We were focused on that one type of magic," Six replied haughtily.

"And you just never happened to mention it?"

"It's not important," Six growled. "Anyway, yes, there are different types of magic here. And they're not split up, well, I suppose they are, but it's not really like that..."

Six paused in order to get her thoughts in order. She seemed to be at the end of her rope. "Let's just say this. Magic is colour coded."

"Oh, really?" Luz asked, somehow making that sound not sarcastic. "What colour is the one I use?"

"Colourless," Six told her, and before Coraline could butt in, she continued. "Yours is the easiest to use, because it's literally everywhere, all around us, even though you can't see it. However, the others are only in certain places, so if you want to use them, you have to go find them. You've seen some around the town before: the fires that never go out. That's red magic."

'Fire's that never go out?' Coraline repeated in her head, wondering what that meant. Granted, she'd never tried to blow them out before, but... "Alright, but what else can it do?"

"It doesn't go out and it casts light," Six replied. "And if you feed it the right things, it can turn into a bonfire or a weapon."

"Cool!" Luz said, but Coraline wasn't so sure. That just sounded like normal fire, just slightly less impressive. Luz pointed down to the water. "And what does that green type do?"

"Step on it," Six told her, and Luz blinked, but she did as she said, stepping into the water. However, as soon as her foot got to the green part, it didn't go any further.

"Oh!" Luz cried. "Oh..."

Luz tried to push her foot down, but the green didn't bend or break, and Luz couldn't get her foot to the sand below. It felt weird, like a floor, but it was moving like the water was, and Luz took her foot off before she could fall.

"Do we... have to get under that?" Coraline asked. "Or can we find whatever is 'under the sea' on top of this."

"It's probably..." Six started, before hesitating. "I guess we'll find out. In any case, we're at the dock. You should ask around, see what you can find."

"I DON'T see a submarine," Coraline sighed. "Of course, we don't get to take the easy way."

Six rolled her eyes.

"A submarine wouldn't work because of the green anyway," Six told her, and Coraline didn't bother to dignify that with a response.

"Hey, look!" Luz suddenly cried, and Coraline looked to where she was pointing. They had arrived at the dock by now, and across from them sat a large man, who was obviously fishing. Coraline blinked.

"Huh? How is he doing that?" she wondered out loud, and Luz gave her a grin.

"The answer to that is probably the answer to all our questions!" she said, tugging Coraline forward. "Come on, let's go ask!"

They both started forward, onto the shaking dock, but they didn't get far before they stopped. The man seemed to have heard them, and he turned around to look at them. The sight nearly made Luz and Coraline gag. The man was missing half his face.