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assure you, the Sea Goddess is not one of them. She actually exists, and I have spoken with her in her deep-sea realm.”
    He looked at her with his intense blue eyes, and she could tell that he didn’t believe her. He twisted his face a little, but continued to hold his tongue.
    “Kimo has gills in his body that the Sea Goddess gave him,” she said, “enabling him to remain underwater indefinitely. He can even dive very deep in the ocean, to the realm of Moanna—with no diving equipment.”
    “More crazy Pohaku stuff,” Preston said. “There seems to be no limit to their tall tales.”
    “The Pohakus are not crazy, and they’re not liars. Grandfather, I also received these swimming abilities from Moanna. Now I, like Kimo, can dive deep in the ocean, thousands of feet down, without any equipment.”
    “You sound like you’re on drugs, Alicia.”
    She tried to hold her temper. “You think so? Then look at this.” She lifted her hair out of the way, showing him behind one ear. “I have gills, just like Kimo. He was transformed by Moanna when he was a newborn, and she changed me a short while ago. Now Kimo and I are both hybrids, amphibians who can go on the land and in the sea, and we have other powers as well—he can heal sea creatures, and I can generate ocean waves.”
    The old man looked behind her ear, touched the rough skin and flaps there, and then checked the other side as well. “Strange,” he said. “Very strange. But it doesn’t prove anything.”
    “I can breathe underwater, Grandfather. I can even eat raw food from the ocean like other sea creatures do, such as the plankton that is almost invisible in the saltwater, which I can consume by filtering and processing it through my body while swimming.”
    He shook his head in disbelief.
    “Grandfather, I’m telling you all of this because Moanna wants us to recruit more humans from around the world to become hybrids like Kimo and me, for a campaign to restore the health of the ocean. She wants environmental scientists, oceanographers, marine biologists and anatomists, bacteriologists, anyone who cares about the ocean and has the ability to help. We have a list, and–“ Alicia paused, deciding not to tell him they were planning a demonstration to shut down as many Hawaiian beaches as possible, because he definitely would not like that.
    “Do you realize how crazy this sounds?” he asked. He rolled his eyes. “Come on, those aren’t really gills behind your ears, are they?”
    With a smile Alicia said, “It sounds crazy to me, too, even now after all that I’ve experienced. But I assure you, it’s all true. Everything I’ve told you is true.”
    The old man looked pensive, chewed at his lower lip.
    “It’s going to cost money to recruit the people we need,” she said, “to go and talk to them wherever they are in the world, to pay their expenses of bringing them back to Hawaii, and I thought, I mean I hoped , you would help.”
    “Are you asking for an early inheritance?” His blue eyes flashed with displeasure.
    Her heart raced. “Grandfather, I hope you will help us financially and offer us advice on how to handle things, based on your experience as a successful businessman. Some of the recruits will be concerned about their continuing expenses, the welfare of their families, and there are details we will have to work out. Others are wealthy in their own right, and will help us without the need for financing them.”
    “Then get money from them, not from me. Don’t come to me with a harebrained scheme hatched by the Pohakus. They’re up to something, trying to take advantage of you, trying to take advantage of the Ellsworth name. If they can’t get my land, they want my name and money.”
    “You’re wrong. Grandfather, this is your chance to do something good with your money, something really, really good, instead of just accumulating it for yourself and the rest of our family. I think it makes good business sense because it