Publisher's Synopsis
"What happened to your eye?" Derek asked once he looked at him straight in the face and had a chance to examine him closely. "That's precisely why he came to see you; he lost his eye yesterday without a trace." Kelsie said."I lost my eye when I was hiking in the mountain." Thielan explained. "It was an accident, but I don't know who it happened. Something must've stolen it from me." "There are water creatures that live in rivers and water currents of the mountains that can cause this type of damage." Derek explained. "They've been known since ancient times as Oreads and Naiads." "What?" Thielan could hardly believe what he had just heard because he had never expected that there could be any creature that would cause that type of injuries on earth. "Legends say that people were afraid of them in ancient times because they wronged anyone who dared to get close to their dwellings. It says that they turned their victims into animals, and sometimes even into monsters." "Legends?" Thielan exclaimed disappointed. "I don't believe in legends!""Oh, yeah? Well, look at you!" Derek pointed out. "Are you telling me that you don't believe that you've been transformed into a monster?" "Are you serious?" Thielan said in disbelief. "I'm not a monster!" "Are you sure?" Derek asked. Thielan stopped dead on his tracks when he noticed that Derek and Kelsie kept staring at his face. "Hey, guys! What´s going on?" He said. "I don't know." She said with a note of uncertainty in her voice. "But now that Derek mentioned it, I think that you look a little bit different from the way you looked when you came to school this morning." "What?" He never gave them a chance to say anything else. Thielan immediately got up and rushed to the bathroom. What he discovered after taking a good look at himself, was that neither Kelsie nor Derek were making things up or trying to fool him. He came out trembling from the horror and shock of what he had just seen reflected in the mirror. The only eye that he still possessed had already started displacing itself towards the middle of his face. "You have to believe that your situation isn't hopeless and that you can still recover what's rightfully yours, but you have to start fighting back if you want to get it back." Derek said. "We just have to find a way to break the spell that turned you into a Cyclope, and if we manage to do that, it could change everything." "But it's only a fairytale." Thielan pleaded. "There's no such thing as Nymphs and fairies.""You have to go back to the place where you lost your eye, find the nymph that took it away from you and make her give it back." Derek continued, turning towards Thielan. "If you want to get your eye back, the first thing you have to do is find out how you lost it. And the only way you're going to know for sure is by going back to where it all happened!" "I don't think I can go back to the mountain again." Thielan almost whispered. Apparently, he hadn't considered the possibility of going back seriously. "I'm not sure I can do that." "You have to!" Derek stressed. "If that´s where you lost it, it's the only place where you're going to find the answers you need to get it back. The only way to solve this mystery is by returning to the spot where the event originally took place." "And judging by the way you've been changing." Kelsie added thoughtfully. "I don't think that you have much time left to spare."
