Enter the main chamber.

Through the hall, you swim into a gorgeous inner chamber. It feels as if you're within a fishbowl. All around you is the curve of a glass sphere, with what appears as a sky at sunset on the other side, though surely it couldn't be real. Inside has a ground of short grass with a large aquatic plant sprouting up from the center nearly to the roof. Flowers of muted colours grow all around, and it's further lit by more of the same magic lanterns as you saw previously. There's a passage through on the other side of the tree, as well as one on the left and right. The jellyfish-girl stops your party near the middle, however, still scowling as her judgmental eye inspects the party up and down. She squeezes her flail's shaft tight in her grip.

"Anyana," she speaks. After a moment, her cold glare turns to the dark companion nearby. There's a pause. "Anyana!"

"Oh!" The lights on her body flicker. "What is it?"

"If you think this idea is so good, then watch them as I fetch the mistress. Though it seems you're already watching them far too closely."

"S-Sorry," she murmurs.

"Remain here!" barks the jellyfish right as her attention snaps back to you. "I'll return momentarily."

After giving the anglerfish one last nod, she swims away through the left-most passage, and with relative ease despite having legs instead of a fish's tail as her ally does. She disappears, leaving you, Selinda, Kailani, Candy, and Snow alone with the deep sea archer. She stares, though not in a threatening matter. It's in quiet intrigue. As scattered as her brain has been a few times already, she certainly knows how to lock her attention, no doubt benefiting her weapon of choice, though you can't help but wonder how well an arrow travels underwater, especially when fired also from underwater. It may be magic.

"Be cautious," comes Kailani's whispered voice over your ear from behind. "Her kind can be deadly, especially from the shadows. That's what I've heard anyhow. Her lights do make her more easily seen, however, albeit faint at the moment."

The towering woman above you leans overhead--two round shadows hanging just above your head, like a pair of boulders ready to crush your body--and places her finger inquisitively to her chin. "Ooh. I love anglermaids. And you're especially cute."

In response, the girl's lights flicker again. "O-Oh am I? Thank you. That's really kind."

"They're a sight to behold, like a surface dweller's night sky but below. Darkness filled with the glow of their bodies. They can light up whenever they desire, and do so in stunning dances deeper than even merfolk usually go. But the lights are also often triggered by emotional reactions. Like a blush!"

"N-Not true!" the anglermaid stutters as her lights flicker again, this time continuing to glow for a longer moment before fading away.

"And their little head bobbles are very sensitive."

"Please, that isn't--"

Before the conversation can continue, and the poor girl's markings can glow any more sporadically, the jellyfish girl emerges from the same passage as she left. There she stands, and she beckons the party towards that direction with her free hand. "Come. The Mistress of the Depths wishes to speak with your party."

The anglermaid breathes a sigh of relief.