"Well, we have no way of knowing unless we try." Jon said.
And so he wrote the name of Kim Jong Il into the Transformation Note, specifying the transformation into a fish. At that point, Karyn spoke the same thought that Jon had been thinking to himself.
"How will we know if it worked?" Karyn asked.
"Good point. I mean, it's not like someone's going to exhume a grave to see whether or not he's a fish." Jon said. After a moment's thought, he added "Wait a minute. Let's look at Rule 6 again after 40 seconds."
And so they did. They waited a few minutes.
The message remained the same.
- If this book is not used to transform anyone into a fish within the next 32 hours, its owner will transform into a mermaid and surrender ownership of the book.
"I ... I don't think it's going to work." Jon sighed.
"But ... it doesn't say that the person has to be alive! Just says they have to be human!" Karyn objected.
"I don't know. Maybe it doesn't consider dead people human anymore. Maybe corpses or ghosts or whatever ... even if they used to be human, aren't human for the book's purposes." Jon said.
"So now what do we do?" Karyn said. "Jon, you're going to have to find someone bad enough to transform into a fish within the next 32 hours, or you're going to be a mermaid!"
Jon sighed. He knew there was no way out of this. The book had backed him into this corner.
