Triton, child of the deep, visits a prosperous blue kingdom, where the song of time has found a voice in a voiceless girl. The girl grows up to be a beautiful bride who suddenly becomes frozen. Her voice becomes one with the sea. The blue sea becomes motionless, and yet it still seems to move despite being utterly still. Proteus is captured and brought to a frozen kingdom, where he learns that he must release the woman from her perpetual stasis in order for time to move again. Time moves inside an hourglass, but the first drop that is about to fall appears to be frozen in place. The frozen hourglass allows him to discover his connection to this woman.