12-05-2021, 07:34 PM
The water that surrounds me is familiar, but it is changing. What has become of the warm eastern currents that should cross over Baltia? Has it just slowed for the afternoon - rare, but not unheard of - or is there something more amiss than the rippling earth?
Nothing seems permanently damaged around us, and the fish that dart nearby aren’t even spooked. I nab one with a long tentacle, intending to eat it later when there is time.
“I’m not an earthshaker like my father was,” I reply, “But I know enough to suspect something is amiss. We will need to send out scouts, check to see if anything has happened elsewhere.” Baltia comes first, ahead even of my other children in the aftermath of a natural disaster, and I cannot waste myself worrying over the unalterable. Still, my older head turns to look in the direction I know they’re most likely to be, nearer the center of our underwater realm. Only for a moment though, and then the wide-blazed face turns back toward Rezza.
Once the scouts return with news, then we’ll have a better grasp of what had caused the earthquake and the...thing just before it. Until then… I glance up at the surface, not far away here in the shallows. “Come on. Let’s go to the surface. I want to look at the sky.”
@Rezza
Nothing seems permanently damaged around us, and the fish that dart nearby aren’t even spooked. I nab one with a long tentacle, intending to eat it later when there is time.
“I’m not an earthshaker like my father was,” I reply, “But I know enough to suspect something is amiss. We will need to send out scouts, check to see if anything has happened elsewhere.” Baltia comes first, ahead even of my other children in the aftermath of a natural disaster, and I cannot waste myself worrying over the unalterable. Still, my older head turns to look in the direction I know they’re most likely to be, nearer the center of our underwater realm. Only for a moment though, and then the wide-blazed face turns back toward Rezza.
Once the scouts return with news, then we’ll have a better grasp of what had caused the earthquake and the...thing just before it. Until then… I glance up at the surface, not far away here in the shallows. “Come on. Let’s go to the surface. I want to look at the sky.”
@Rezza