12-28-2021, 06:59 AM
"All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn’t it terrible?"
His peripheral vision registers a dark, moving shape somewhat akin to a large fish or sea mammal, which quickly - very quickly indeed - moves through the water to reveal an equinesque shape. Truly, he'd always thought he was well-adapted to the water; he had moved water and walked the ocean floor for decades before even setting a single foot in Sverige, the place that had mutated him so that he had jokingly been nicknamed Narwhal; fins and horn and all. But this species he can only admire for her grace in the water.
(Had he lived in Beqanna longer than this, he would have met shapeshifting horses, nereids, and kelpies for sure - but he has not, not yet, and so the one nearing is the first melding of horse and fish he has seen in his life.)
He bows his neck lightly, threading the line between a greeting and deference with well-practiced perfection. "My name is Ahti," he tells her when their eyes meet again, "and if I've guessed correctly, your new neighbor." He nods vaguely behind him (northeast), indicating that that is the direction he had come from. "I'm told Beqanna is not new to land-shaping earthquakes, but perhaps you were less accustomed to the idea of moving." An understatement, sure, but one she could ignore if she wished; he usually leaves room for interpretation and diplomacy. His world is now occupied with more than just a few superior water-dwellers and doesn't feel like provoking a kingdom full of them. Besides, the aqua male has never really bothered with kingdoms - only people are his interest.
(Had he lived in Beqanna longer than this, he would have met shapeshifting horses, nereids, and kelpies for sure - but he has not, not yet, and so the one nearing is the first melding of horse and fish he has seen in his life.)
He bows his neck lightly, threading the line between a greeting and deference with well-practiced perfection. "My name is Ahti," he tells her when their eyes meet again, "and if I've guessed correctly, your new neighbor." He nods vaguely behind him (northeast), indicating that that is the direction he had come from. "I'm told Beqanna is not new to land-shaping earthquakes, but perhaps you were less accustomed to the idea of moving." An understatement, sure, but one she could ignore if she wished; he usually leaves room for interpretation and diplomacy. His world is now occupied with more than just a few superior water-dwellers and doesn't feel like provoking a kingdom full of them. Besides, the aqua male has never really bothered with kingdoms - only people are his interest.
--ahti
"You are not one wave, you are part of the ocean."
@Rezza