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Keelthy felt alive again in Oba and was unable to stop his feet doing steps even in between his walking. Home, home home! He didn't care he was about to face his uncles they could chew date leather for all he cared he was in the hot and dry and all the happier for it. Oh the glee! He had left the group to stew for a bit and set out on his own for a little wandering.

He was heading to a small oasis stream and found that there was someone else there, someone not dark enough to be Oban. "Hello there," He called cheerfully, "Do you mind if I pick up some water?" It wasn't too far from the border with Jauhar and he couldn't blame anyone for being curious about other lands, especially his..the most fascinating one. This was a lone female, odd but not entirely unheard of. He shrugged mentally and waited for her reaction, fear, indignation, rage, indifferent who knew?

Keel noticed about the time that Kdal called out just what he had stumbled across. Oh dear. He did turn, he did blush and he apologized quite profusely too. That was until the ladies pet made its unorthodox appearance.

Then he walked closer trying not to notice anything more then tugging sailscale out of hair. Still apologizing he finally divested the reptile from the hair and released it before turning to allow her some time to cover herself.

That had been his first half nakie woman and while he like both men and women he preferred them to flirt first with clothes on. This accident left him nowhere to even start talking. He couldn't even hide behind his janarim because Xarthin was back with the convoy.

"I didn't realize you were in undress. My bad."

The fact hadn't escaped him that she was lovely he was male after all but he was a bit shocked was all.

Keel turned back around. "Quite all right, I know all about familiar woes, I think he just got a bit excited about something. At least hes a small familiar, my brother and I have a janarim and have spent more then one tense minute extracting his bulk from whatever mess he has gotten in..you should have seen us as the market place the one day..well its funny now." He said peering at the sailscale who was peering into the water. "They do keep things interesting, and I'd rather have Xarthin then not." He smiled back at Kdal who was remarkably composed, most females would be freaking out like mad and beating him with whatever came to hand. "My name is Keelthy."

"Hello Dakri," Keelthy said peering curiously at the sailscale, they were rather neat looking and he thought he might try to find one as a pet..until the mention of swarms made him think he should consider that particular venture more carefully.

"Yes I am, I was sort of booted out of my family and I have goals to reinstate myself whether they like the idea initially or not." Kdal didn't speak like most women, kind of giving off a more masculine vibe which let Keelthy relax faster for some reason. It was hard to explain, even for him. He thought perhaps that a more feminine shifter might be a little more prickly at getting caught with her er breast band down. Not that he was very manly but the training had sure helped, there seemed to be two sides to himself now, Keelthy the dancer and he-Keelthy the dagger dancer. It sounded silly but it was what it was, he was entitled to be both if he so chose.

He also preferred if someone else flirted first and under the circumstances of this particular meeting was kind of glad they were talking about the neutral territory of sailscales.

"How many need there be before they become a swarm?"

"Mmm that sounds charming," he smiled, "Maybe when I come back for a visit I'll look around for one to try and tame. My particular family is more complicated then most, being guards and proud and well some born with sticks up their behinds, not even kidding." He grinned. "I prefer a more uncomplicated approach to life myself. I'm afraid the stress of seeing them again will make me loose too much hair, have you ever heard of a bald dancer?"

Now at least he had something to look forward too if he ever traveled this way again, which might be faster then he thought if his family did not let him in. Bahh, stop thinking about that!

"Thank you Kdal," Keel put his hand on top of the others gently. "That means a lot to me, I have friends sure, but not many, and every little bit of support helps so much." He lifted his hand. "There is only one way to find out what will happen and that is to face them with as much dignity as possible, thanks to those I know I still have that dignity."

He looked up at the sky, so vast so beautiful. "In any case, I would like to travel with you at some point, perhaps we can meet up after and go on an adventure or two, I feel like I have so much more to learn about Tendaji.