Returning to the Thetis, George and Angela found Lin just returning as well. The latter, now wearing her new necklace, had a concerned expression on her face. It was unusual for her to be out from the Thetis by herself. What had been going on? Had she gotten lost?
George, on the other hand, was not as much concerned as curious. He noticed a photograph of something in Lin's handed. She must have been looking for him and Angela to show it to them, whatever it was a picture of.
"Where have you been, Lin?" Angela asked, taking a small step forward. When she noticed the photograph, her question immediately changed to: "What have you got there?"
Lin held up the photograph she was carrying. It was of Amalthea. "Turns out George's girlfriend is actually named Amalia Mavromichalis, she's a member of the company at a local theatre."
George would have felt uncomfortable at Amalthea or Amalia or whatever her appellation was being called his girlfriend, but all he could think of was what he asked: "You developed the pictures already?" Richard had taught Lin how to develop photographs and ever since she had developed her pictures herself. Lin had always developed her photos at the end of their time at a certain destination, so seeing a developed photo so early in a visit was quite unusual to George.
"Yes, I did!" Lin exclaimed with a big smile. "I thought the names 'Amalthea' and 'Idomeneus' sound affected and they are! She and her brother are actually Amalia and Otto Mavromichalis."
"I'm sorry? 'Otto?'" asked Angela.
"I was confused by the appellation too, turns out he is named after the Bavarian prince who became a king of Hellas." Lin answered.
"What is Hellas?" George inquired.
"What the people who live in this country actually call it." Answered Lin.
George took the necklace given to him out of his pocket and stared at it. He had been given a necklace by a member of a theatre's company? He had thought it possible that Amalthea and Idomeneus could have been charlatans he just wished it hadn't been true.
Then down the gangplank came Beatrice followed by Mara. The former exclaimed: "Oh, Angela! You got a necklace too! It looks absolutely adorable!" George turned to see that Beatrice was indeed wearing an orange necklace around the neck. It had what appeared to be some sort of crown as the symbol on it. The moment that Beatrice saw the necklace he was holding, she then asked: "Oh, George, did the merchant make some new blue necklaces with the trident symbol on them? He said a brother and sister kept buying them from him so much that he never had any to sell to anyone else."
Within a second, George hurled the necklace to the ground and stormed off. Angela watched him leave, a look of worry in her eye. She knelt down, picked up the necklace and ran after George. She was going to join him on paying Mr. and Miss Mavromichalis a visit. There was no way she was going to let George go alone.
"Where are those two going?" Mara asked.
Lin simply held up the photograph and, in a sing-song voice, said: "George's girlfriend is a charlatan!"
It did not take long for Mara to start yelling like a lunatic: "I knew it! It wasn't actually happening! The world was not going mad! George is wrong! There is no—" A slap from Lin soon quieted him.