While the Adepts were being entertained by Coo-ee-oh at a banquet in her palace, she cruelly betrayed them and after transforming them into fishes cast them into the lake.
"If I could find these three fishes and return them to their natural shapes--they might know what magic Coo-ee-oh used to sink the island.

I was about to go to the shore and call these fishes to me when you arrived.

So, if you will join me, we will try to find them." The maidens exchanged smiles now, and the golden-haired one, Audah, said to Glinda: "It will not be necessary to go to the lake.

We are the three fishes." "Indeed!" cried Glinda.

"Then you are the three Adepts at Magic, restored to your proper forms ?" "We are the three Adepts," admitted Aujah.
"Then," said Glinda, "my task is half accomplished.