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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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[Time moves much differently for dragons and Xzana would be glad to stand there all day taking the world in. It would be just a short amount of time in her mind, but she remembers she is not here on her own. That it is rude to ignore anyone, let alone a God, so after nearly an hour she moves once again.

She walks up to stand behind Saori, but it looks like the woman may be lost in her own thoughts as well. Xzana stands quiet and respectfully a short distance behind Saori. Not wishing to interrupt.]

[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.]

Yes. It is nice. Even in my mind I had not imagined it large enough. There really is a place where one can go to see only water.

[She moves up to the water's edge, but even before she takes a step fully into the water she realizes something with the damp sand. Then get confirmation as it rolls over her feet.]

There is salt in this water!

[Saori kicks off her sandals and steps out onto the sand herself, following Xzana.]

Yes, there is. Seawater is by nature salty.

[Xzana wrinkles her nose. She had smelled salt on their arrival, but had never guessed it had come from the water. When she ate large quantities of human salt she always became very sick, but she had no idea what it would do in water.

She could already tell she didn't feel the same revitalization she usually felt when she was in water, but she was far from feeling sick.] Is this where the humans retrieve their salt? I thought that it came from the ground.

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.]

[To say that her dreams of the ocean were crushed would be a gross overstatement, but this discovery had indeed put a bit of a damper on her excitement.

This was still different then when she ate salt by mistake. Instead of a dry pain in her insides this was just a feeling of being 'off' she wasn't sure how to feel about. She wasn't ill, but it wasn't good either.

She moves herself a little deeper into the water as she tests it. It washes gently over her ankles and she starts to note that the longer she stands in it the uneasy feeling starts to lesson, but the feeling of rejuvenation never comes.

Curious she looks out into the water; wondering what this also means for her powers. Slowly a small funnel out in the distance will form and rises up out of the water. It loops around itself, straightens out, and takes a variety of different simple shapes as she gives her powers of water manipulation a test. If Soari needed more of a hint that the sudden appearance of a tower of water was being caused by her travel partner, the water follows where the dragon's eyes move. To her relief it does not seem that the skill has been damped in any way.]

[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?

No. I have once consumed fish that was more salt than fish. [She lets the water slowly drop back into place as she speaks.] Never before have I felt so ill. My human companion at the time believed it was the salt and not the fish. I believed his words for I had never felt such a way in the past. If I am not careful and eat human salt by mistake it makes me feel ill.

Never before have I felt it in the water. It does not make me feel ill as it did when I ate that fish, but it feels different. In ways that I can not explain with a human tongue.

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?

Yes. I suppose that would be a good day to describe it.

I like the river water, but this is not unpleasant. [She moves to head out a bit deeper, then spots something out of the corner of her eye. A small creature moving with the waves.] What is that? [She moves over to a small crab that had been washed onto the shore. It runs sideways down the beach, snapping small claws up at her.] It is not a crawfish. It is round and not long.

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.

[She wrinkles her nose at the idea that they maybe saltier. She realizes that she should have realized that when she felt the water. If the water are full of salt then the creatures who call it home likely are as well.

She's interested in eating the small crab. A smaller one would be less of a waste if she was unable to eat all of it. Only she wasn't about to argue when a god makes a choice so she nods her approval when Saori suggests to let it go.

She watches the crab fly through the air and skip a few times.]

I have never before seen a ray or a shark. I have heard stories of sharks who have more teeth and are as vicious as a pike. Is that true of them?

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.

[Xzana watches every detail form as Saori draws in the sand. The shark looked more like a fish she was use to. The tail facing the right way, unlike the picture of a whale she had been shown earlier.

The ray is unlike anything fish she had pictured in her head.] It is so round. Is it like a ball? And where is the stinger located? [Notes of potential danger when hunting is always good to know.]

It's flat, actually. Like a...leaf, with eyes. [She points to the long, tapered point on the drawing.] And that's the stinger.

[Stinger there. She makes a note to avoid that.] Like a leaf? [That's not as exciting then. A leaf is very skinny and doesn't sound very filling at all.] Then there would not be much to gain from hunting a ray.

[Ah well, from what she understood there were many other creatures to eat in the ocean.]

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...

Are they the size of a human? I have heard tales of fish that are even larger than humans.

Hah, there are fish like that, but not tuna. Some sharks are, though.

[She perks right back up at the idea. Even if they were full of salt, to see a fish so large would be worth it.] I wish to see a fish as large as a human. Do you know if they are in this ocean? I have been told that this ocean is not the same as the ocean of other's native world.

Well, I've never been down very far, so I wouldn't know. But, you can always go and investigate, yes? [She laughs.] I don't breath like humans do, but I'm not really built for deep-sea exploration, you know?

You are not? So long as you do not breath the air as humans do then why can you not travel below the water?

[She doesn't breath air either, but she's never experienced water pressure before either.]

Because I don't have the body adaptations to swim like you do. And I can't change shape into anything aquatic.

As long as you do not need air like a human you may hang onto me and I will be glad to swim for you. If you wished to see the bottom. I understand if you have no desire to do so.

[She just wants to make an offer. It had been grilled into her since childhood to do all she could to please the gods.]

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