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Xzana ([personal profile] elongatedsmile) wrote2014-03-20 11:11 am

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[Today the journal opens up on a rather water damaged looking apartment on the top floor of the Ground Building. Yes, the apartment has been trying to fix itself, but each night she tends to destroy it once more. Thankfully with the warmer weather the mixed breed will be returning to sleeping at the bottom of the lake once more, but thinking of her move she's gotten something else on her mind.

She opens her large, fanged mouth and speaks in a slightly gravely voice.]


Talking book. I have heard tell that in this land is the ocean. This is true, is it not? In which direction is this ocean?

[It's always been a dream of her's to see an ocean. Her extra long, scaled fingers grip the book tightly just thinking about it. She had put off searching for it until she felt she had secured herself a safe territory, but she's learned that Luceti probably won't let that ever happen.]

Is it as any ocean you have visited in your world? Or is it unique as are many items in this world? What of fish? Large monsters of the sea? Does there exist a place where one can stand and not see the end of the water?

[Tell her stories of oceans, Luceti. She's planning a trip and is full of excitement.]
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-03-28 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Teleporation. Nothing complicated.

[Saori will lead her down to the teleporter. Which is basically a large stone with a chiseled panel, and a platform.]

This is it. Now, look at what I'm doing, so you can do this yourself.

[She presses her hand onto the controls and pushes, and the panel glows.]

Easy, yes?
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-03-29 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
No, just push this to activate it. Or push it again a second time to turn it off.

[She does that now.]

You try, Xzana.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-03-30 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Watching Xzana, she nods, smiling approvingly. Very quick, really. And astute.]

Step onto it and find out.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-03-30 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Saori's only a moment behind, and when she steps out onto the sand it's hard to not see Xzana standing there. The awe on the half-dragon's face is quite plain, and Saori leaves her to it, not wanting to interrupt. Standing there in the early afternoon sunlight, she looks out over the ocean as well. It's a wonderful sight, to be sure, and each time it calls to mind a particular bundle of memories that she treasures.

Whenever Xzana comes around, she'll find Saori standing a few paces away, expression distant, lost in memory.]
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-03-31 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Time is almost meaningless for an immortal as well, the hour passing in the blink of an eye. Memories of Isora, of afternoons spent sunbathing, and an encounter with a sarcastic colleague. She's in no hurry, and she's not at all concerned with the dragon's own difficulties with mortal time.

Though, when Xzana begins to shift, she slips out of her reverie a few moments later.]


It's nice, isn't it?

[Not at all bothered that they'd just spent an hour doing...nothing.]
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-01 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Saori kicks off her sandals and steps out onto the sand herself, following Xzana.]

Yes, there is. Seawater is by nature salty.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-01 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes. I think mostly it comes from the ground too, but I don't know for certain.

[Shrug...but she is still watching Xzana just to be sure the young dragon was alright.]
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-02 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Saori steps up beside Xzana, having kicked off her shoes to keep them from getting wet, and watches the funnel form. It's impressive, far more than the waterspouts she can make in the sea. Her power has never allowed her much control over bodies of water, but she sees the skill involved in it all the same.]

You don't like salt?
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-04 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It feels off, somehow, doesn't it? [She understands the idea of human tongues being limited, given some of the concepts she has to deal with.] Is that the best way to describe it? It's not what you're familiar with.

Is it unpleasant?
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-07 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's not. [Saori steps quickly and picks up the crab, covering her hands in a glove of hardened air to keep it from pinching.]

It's called a crab. They're really good to eat, like a crawfish...but maybe saltier. But this one's a little small for that. So...I think we'll let it go.

[With a laugh she spins in place, and hurls the crustacean back out into the water, skipping it's shell along the surface like a rock and letting it sink back into the water. She's not fond of crabs, really, but they're entertaining.]

The fish here will be different too. And you might find a ray or a shark.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-08 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's accurate. Sharks come in a lot of different sizes, but they're predatory fish, and generally large.

[She picks up a bit of driftwood and sketches one in the sand. And then a stingray]

And a ray is a flat fish, a bit like a catfish, but it looks almost like an undersea wing. And it has a stinger.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-08 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's flat, actually. Like a...leaf, with eyes. [She points to the long, tapered point on the drawing.] And that's the stinger.
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[personal profile] windandrain 2014-04-09 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
No, not really. They're flat, and I think they eat things found in the seabed. Not really appealing at all. But there are always tuna. Big, fat fish with lots of good meat...

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