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[elongatedsmile]

[The weather finally warming up so she can spend time outside again and the first thing on Xzana's mind is to go hunting. People wandering the woods today can find this large white winged, long limb, and blue scaled covered girl either in the middle of a hunt of some small game or perhaps she's currently trying to eat this nice deer and you've interrupted. She can be found all over the forest today.

Eventually her stomach will get full and she'll be running around town. She doesn't trust Luceti's weather just yet to stay warm and she doesn't want to be too far yet from the building she's claimed as home. Of course, that doesn't stop her from wanting to explore and stretch her winter cramped limbs.

Xzana will be sitting on your roof. It's where all the cool kids hang out after all. Surely you don't have a problem with this. Look, you let birds sit there and everything. Maybe you hear her bare feet tromping around up there. Maybe you just came home from shopping. Maybe you were about to head into Good Spirits or the grocery store. Either way, there is now a girl standing there, looking over Luceti. She's happy right where she is, dressed in a new feather's sundress and nothing more.

She'll hang out on your roof until she decides for a different view and eventually moves onto a new one. Or if you tell her to scram and she decides to listen.]

Comments

[i_speak_softly]

I mean in the mountains.

[elongatedsmile]

Mountains.

[Give her a minute.]

The place with hot water?

[i_speak_softly]

Yes, exactly.

[elongatedsmile]

Hm, your swimming was a bit weak at first. [Now that she is recalling that day.] Kappa belong in water. [Or what she's trying to say is that it was weird.]

[i_speak_softly]

I know you don't believe me, but I did drown last summer. I want to swim again, but... it's kind of a phobia.

[elongatedsmile]

[A kappa drowning is pretty hard for her to picture. Then again, she's got the complete and utterly wrong idea of Don at the moment.] You should stay close to shore if you are a weak swimmer. It will not happen again if you stay where you can stand in calm water. The lake here is a good place to learn.

[i_speak_softly]

[Don sighs, momentarily distracted by memories of the lake, before this leads him to other thoughts.]

I want to go diving. In the ocean.

[elongatedsmile]

[Ocean. It stirs in her a feeling of desire she doesn't usually feel.] I have never seen an ocean. [Yet how badly she wishes to.]

[i_speak_softly]

[He points to the northeast.]

There's one out there. It's beautiful.

[elongatedsmile]

The mountains? Past the mountains? [She's not exactly a fan of mountains.]

[i_speak_softly]

On the other side, yes. But you can get there from the teleporter.

[elongatedsmile]

Hm. Like to the warm water?

[i_speak_softly]

Exactly the same.

[elongatedsmile]

So, I would not have to spend time climbing over the mountains? [That sounds wonderful.]

[i_speak_softly]

You don't even have to go near them.

[elongatedsmile]

I heard that oceans are so full of water that when you look at them you see nothing else. Is it true?

[i_speak_softly]

You can't see the bottom, if that's what you mean. Or the other side.

[elongatedsmile]

It is that deep? [That. Sounds. Amazing!

[i_speak_softly]

It's an ocean, Xzana. You might not even be able to dive to the bottom.

[elongatedsmile]

I can. I do not breath air as most do.

[i_speak_softly]

[Don frowns at this.]

For how long?

[elongatedsmile]

I live in water. [She places a hand on her stomach, although she actually doesn't know how her own body works. Her reserve isn't exactly there.] I carry what I need to live outside of the water inside of me.

[i_speak_softly]

Wait, are you -- [One moment, processing.] You're water-breathing?

[elongatedsmile]

Yes. [It a way.] My body lives on water.

[i_speak_softly]

Then -- how long can you stay out of the water?