[open] You are not one wave; any!

[Rezza]

appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

She spends plenty of time talking. She also spends plenty of time not talking. Both are equally fine by her, and she doesn't mind silence. Silence has a purpose and a place. Besides, she spends so much of her time as a jellyfish that she really ought to be okay with it. She doesn’t exactly speak in that form, after all.

She appreciates that he neither wastes words nor minces them either. He answers her unasked question as any good diplomat would, simply because it is a harmless enough question. That’s the trick, learning to answer only what is beneficial to answer and how to skip past the things that ask for information you aren’t willing to give in such a way that no one ever realizes you never answered in the first place. Granted, she doesn’t actually need them to answer aloud and her questions usually provoke a mental answer that she can grab. Though, at least at the moment, this is not that type of conversation.

“May I ask how many places you have found yourself?” she asks, both curious and a bit repulsed at the idea. Her ocean-bound home has never moved before, and residents did not simply disappear. This first time seems like quite enough. It may perhaps be a blessing in disguise, though she cannot be sure yet. Blessings and curses often look a lot alike.

He answers her next unasked question easily enough, and she feels the current as he moves it around her. So they do have magic much like what Baltians had, though something about it still feels like it might be different. ”Is there a source to this magic?” she asks, curious. They had one, long ago, but she has never actually known a living source of magic. Was Beqanna like Baltia in this too?

”Come,” she says, an invitation and not a demand, though she nods her head in the direction of Baltia. She will show him parts of it, for it seems only fair. Parts, of course, being the key word, and then she will escort him out. She doesn’t yet trust Ahti, though she isn’t worried about him either. Mostly though, she is pretty sure Tsilutsuli will eat him or Helice will slaughter him should he be caught anywhere near the heart of their home (or possibly anywhere, but she ought to be able to talk them out of it if she is careful where he goes). But there are things she can show him that perhaps will be of interest all the same.

REZZA

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@Ahti