Once upon a time in a far away land, there lived a dwarf named Hazel.
She was cheerful, and happy, and carefree and bubbly, everyone around her hated it.
So when they next saw her, and being grumpy and not having a large amount of imagination, they picked her up and threw her into the ocean.
When she first hit the water she attempted to swim, but sunk like a stone instead into the murky depths.
The outlook was decidedly dim for our poor heroine until she caught onto the tail of a friendly Mermaid, who took her to the wonderful place where all the pretty pearls were made.
And Hazel was happy to be surrounded by colours, and although breathing was becoming an annoyance she could ignore it.
And some time later when she ran out of air, she had thousands of tiny pearls braided in her hair.