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Terpsichore watched Kaida's double-tail whip move, enthralled, "I didn't know you could spin your tails like that! You've got a lot of control over them, don't you? It was so graceful!" The girl clapped her frilled hands in response to the demonstration; while she was against battling, she could still appreciate move tactics when not in use for what they were designed for. She snickered at the shiny eevee's confusion before nodding, coming to the same end result herself, "Yeah, maybe that was it. If you've made such a name for yourself, maybe others want to take that title themselves. Beat the best and that's what you become, right?" It was silly, but that's how it seemed some ego-driven people thought. She shrugged in reaction, not understanding brutes, "Oh well, they're not going to get anywhere if they keep trying it like that! Hehe, maybe the silver in your coat is actually threaded steel, wouldn't that be something?" It certainly almost seemed to shine like that!

If Terpsichore was a more hyperactive pokémon, she'd probably have found herself bouncing in place at the plan -- she was trying to be more proper than that! It was hard to be when one was excited, though. "I bet it's absolutely gorgeous! I will most certainly see it sometime if I go with you, now won't I? It would probably be more fun to see it with a friend anyway!" she responded matter-of-factly, her grin brimming. It always seemed to feel more special, more real, when someone was there to share in the experience. "Flashing lights, huh?" Terpsichore echoed, pondering that over, "It sounds like some sort of computer system, but what would that be doing there? And why would it turn on and off like that..? It sounds creepy!" She wasn't too familiar with technology, unfortunately, so she had no idea if there was something more obviously fitting to that sort of description. The girl felt a shiver run up her spine at Kaida's narrative, but giggled, "That's probably it. It's not like it would be a ghost or something!" She hoped she didn't just jinx anything with that comment.

She kicked her feet in the water a bit more where she had seen the surface sparkle off the water, determining her next course of action as she took in the shiny mutant's directive. "Ahh, okay, I got it, then, El Capitan!" she saluted. She had started giggling again, but it was cut short when the kicking of her feet was halted with a pull at one of her toes, "Aah, what's that!?" While she sounded worried, it was more out of sudden surprise than fear. Pulling her foot back toward her, she released her foot from the clenches of what appeared to be... "Fishing line?" What was that doing in a stream so shallow? "There are no fish here... are there?"

Terpsichore snickered at Kaida's exuberance, as the dual-tailed shiny eevee seemed to be fueled by her innocent pride into a more chipper hyperactivity. The girl had not run into many others that worked in such a manner, but she was reminded how much of a pleasure it was to converse with someone that preferred to stay happy. "Being able to control your own body like that is important, and difficult for most people to do very well! You, however, are a pro!" Terpsichore agreed, finding the task challenging for herself as well, especially when such humanesque body structure was so new to her. However, Kaida had ample time to get used to wielding her own tails so effortlessly, being born like that! It gave her more experience in such areas, and also assured the shroomish-girl that the small eevee had nothing to worry about in the face of such oppression as someone who may or may not be attempting a grab at one of her numerous names. "Yeah, I think whoever it was that tried to attack you should be scared themselves. After all, how else would you have earned the title, if not from earning it the honest way?" she scoffed; obviously, Kaida was much more honorable than that! The girl giggled at Kaida's new title proclamation, "It's quite befitting, I like it! Maybe toting that name around, people would think twice about throwing rocks to someone who would be unfazed by it!"

Terpsichore had never gone spelunking before, and in fact had avoided caves in the past -- not because she was scared of them, but because she never thought she'd find anything worthwhile within one. Now that the idea was imposed on her, and with a friend nonetheless, it was immensely more enticing. "I can't wait for the adventure! I can't say I've been on one in a long while, so I'm really looking forward to it!" the shroomish exclaimed giddily. Her concern all but evaporated with the reassurance that the blinking lights weren't scary, "Hehe! You're right, if it were a ghost, they'd probably know better than to mess with you. Well that's good! If it's not creepy, then it must be something less mischievous like that. It's too bad I don't know of any electricians... that could solve the problem." She sighed at the thought, but figured she could keep her eyes peeled throughout her travels.

Attempting to unknot the wire-like line, the girl gave an idle nod in response. The river seemed too small to go fishing in, unless it was just because the water levels were down for the time of year, but Kaida seemed positive that no fishing went on around here. The child glanced back into the water, in case there was something else with the fishing line that she may have missed. "Maybe a water-type pokémon brought it up here, or it was carried this far by the stream. It's probably the same for anything else that you find in the water that was man-made. Or maybe it was a hiker that didn't know what he was doing..." she rattled off, trying to make heads or tails of it before shrugging, "Oh well, either way, maybe it's a good sign. Perhaps we can find all sorts of weird things in here, if we look hard enough!" Too bad nothing was on the other end of the line, though, that would have been interesting if it was a marker for something buried or otherwise hidden! It seemed like the line broke, though.

"That could get very dangerous, for all involved, I can say that much!" Terpsichore responded sternly, a bit worried for anyone in the area if someone had tried to be so reckless as something they didn't have most -- if not complete -- control of. It was like playing with fire, and they weren't the only ones in danger of being burned! Thinking on the idea, the shroomish-girl voiced a concern, "What are you going to do if you happen to run into that rock-thrower again? The world seems to be smaller than what I had originally thought it was, in my travels. I'm not sure if it's because I've gotten so much taller or not, though." While Kaida, one-of-many-names, was sure to be fine, she couldn't shake that worry that she could get herself hurt if she wasn't careful. Airborne rocks were dangerous!

Terpsichore giggled at Kaida's proclamation as a ghostbuster, "You're going to have to show me how to stand up to a ghost sometime, then. I never could figure out how you're supposed to protect yourself against something that you can't touch! I mean, how are you going to if you can't physically protect yourself? And what if they don't listen to reason?" Her questions were not cast of doubt, but merely an eagerness to learn -- these were all things she had wondered before and never got the answers to! The grin nearly split clear across her face at the mention of adventures, but she urged herself not to laugh at Kaida's choice of adjectives, "I'll be sure to take those words to heart. It's as good an excuse as any to team up with you again for more of it!" Well, this was... sort of an adventure, even if they weren't going on some grand journey of discovery or anything.

Speaking of discovery, it was then that the shroomish-girl caught the other end of the broken fishing line, finding it most certainly stuck on something beneath the surface. She frowned as she tugged, opting to give up and dig under the surface herself with an extending of an arm; she didn't mind her tank top getting a little wet in the process. As she searched with her hand, following the line, she formulated her reply, "Well, maybe they were carrying something on the end of the fishing line if they were traveling, like a bag. Or maybe they were pulling a little boat!" Okay, now her imagination was just making her say stranger and stranger things. Oblivious to the uncomfortableness that Kaida had been feeling with the direction the conversation was going, she easily slid into the altered subject, "That would be really cool, if we could find something like that! Maybe--" Just then, Terpsichore almost toppled over into the river with another tug at a string that refused to budge, and she flailed to keep her balance, crouched over the river, with the hand that wasn't currently engulfed in the water. Once her composure was corrected, she used her free hand to pull a rock off of the line instead of trying to pull them both together, and out of the river popped... something she hadn't truly been expecting to see. Wide-eyed and seated back down, the shroomish slowly turned to the metallic eevee with necklace in hand, a fishing hook caught in one of the ruby beads. "I, uh..." she was still in disbelief, "I think I found something you might like!"