"Who are you?" you ask.
"My name is Stephen. I used to be a prince, Prince of
Saraganthia, but something happened. I love the water and everything
in it. I was tasting this new seaweed, and the next thing I knew, I
was a dispicable monster. Now I know that the seaweed is poison, but I
learned the hard way. A fish once told me that there is an antedote on
the other side of the mountain, across the river and through the
jungle, but, alas! I cannot be out of the water for more than an hour
before my skin gets parched, and I found that the river is more than a
half hour away. I couldn't risk it! I may not have made it back in
time. If only someone could get it for me! It is a purple egg-shaped
plant."