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Zahra gave a little grin, "Because it's fun of course, Nesky! To see what sorts of nicknames we can figure out for any given name." She nodded her head, enjoying the game that went along with figuring out multiple nicknames for one person, "Sometimes we will reuse one more often then another if it's a good one, like for Joweese it Jojo or Jowe, but I will come up with others on the fly too like Jowejo, Jojowe, and the like."

"Eh? You don't know?" She asked in a curious manner, then gave a little giggle, "Oh that's easy. If you look at Uncle Yahoho and Momma you can see the differences easily." She leaned in to whisper so that only Neska and Jowe could hear, "I think it comes down to Aisha, sometimes she forgets and POOF there are those who don't get any boobs!" She sounded as though it were the worst atrocity that could happen. She was hoping to be nice and bouncy one day, that was her dream at least, one she'd pray to Aisha for.

"Hrm?" Her thoughts disrupted she had tot hink about the question, then nodded, "Oh yeah, super sized pinchers that are quite painful! It's why we need to catch them off guard or pin them with a stick." She said, then turned to look at her twin, "We should finds some sticks if we are gonna catch shellfish." She then added, as though to warn both the other girls, "They seem to have no sense of humor so we will have to be careful not to let them grab us."

Neska stood silently as she thought on this new tidbit of information. How strange! Why'd they have these.... boys? Were they needed somehow? Did they do something women couldn't? If so... how come the Alkidikes didn't have them? This.... uncle person must be some mixed blood as Neska knew that alkidikes were women. How did those types look? Weren't they really weird?


She paused in her thoughts and looked at the rambunctious twins; well... considering these two... they were probably normal, she thought to herself.

"Jojo is a nice one.... I'll stick to calling you Jojo and Zahra." She gave a small nod. Those were cute names. Easy to remember. How many names did they call each other by? It seemed so random... these two must have more air in them than earth, she thought with amusement. She'd read some of the older scrolls in her grandmothers house and the last one had been on elements; a fun topic.

She wrinkled hr nose again; "If you step on them I bet it'll pinch your toes off!" She curled her toes at the thought. "I'll... stick to the non pinching ones...." It was hard to not be happy around these two; hard to keep to her usual quiet self. She headed for the water, wanting to feel the waves splashing over her feet, the wet sand between her toes making her giggle as she reached the surf.

Joweese considered the arguments against stomping the crabs and eventually nodded. Yeah, she'd like to keep her toes! How would she walk without them? She scrunched her toes up, trying to get them to vanish as much as possible under the sand, and waddled forward. Mmm, not easily? The sand seemed to suck you right in when you were toe-less! The youngling let out a puff of air and nodded again, as if affirming the point to herself, and skipped to join her sister and Neska at the shoreline.

"Normal fish is just as good as a bucket of crabs!" She agreed, kneeling down to inspect the water as it came splashing forward. Water was interesting, wasn't it? It was clear, but colored, light in your hand, but really heavy if you put in a jug. How did Aisha create something so hot and cold like that? Her lips puckered forward and relaxed, before she turned her gaze up to Neska and Zahra again.

"Maybe we have to swim to get the fish?" She said, her brows furrowing. "I don't think fishies like the shore, that's where all the people are."

Zahra looked across the water for a thoughtful moment, "Swim for fish?" She mused, not sure what she thought about it. Yes, the fish would be in the water, but what if they ran into a big fish and it decided that it wanted to drag them under the water. She rested her hands on her hips, a thoughtful look on her face, before said, "I don't know, what if a sea monster shows up and decides that it wants to try to eat us? I bet we look pretty tasty to sea monsters just like fish look tasty to us. I'd rather not have our next nicknames be 'fish bait'." Something she couldn't help but giggle over.

Turning to look over at Neska she tilted her head to one side, "Is that the seaweed stuff that you were talking about eating, Nes? Or some other sort of sea grass?" Did she really want to eat something that the fish lived in? She just didn't like the idea, especially since it seemed so slimy when it washed up on shore. Still, she had to admit she was curious. As such she followed after Neska, motioning to her sister, "Come on, JoJo! Let's get a peek at the..." She trailed off when Neska sudden gave a squeak, "Eh? What is it?!"

It was then she noticed the crab, something that made her go wide eyed before she went racing after it, "Come back, crab!" She called out, as though if she demanded it to come back to her that it would. All that it did though was made the thing speed up, running straight into the water where Zahra couldn't follow as easily.

She giggled: "Not sea weed! Sea grass! Like grass! Its not tasty... but it hides tasty things! Lotsa little shells and small fishes." And spiky things you had to be careful about. And sometimes bigger meaner fish... She frowned as she began to think of the scary stuff that lurked there. Maybe she didn't want to go to the sea grass without momma....

The girls gave chase to the crab, she hoped they catch it! Tiny crab was better than big crab cause they didn't pinch! Neska followed at a much more sedate pace. If these two active girls couldn't get it, she certainly didn't have a chance! She kept her disappointment off her face when it got away. Oh well.

"Its fine... we can go catch tiny fish in the sea grass." Maybe if there were three of them the spiky things wouldn't come out and the bigger fish would stay away.... She waited until they got back to her before walking back towards the sea grass clumps. If she was alone she'd be too tasty! Better to have all three so they seemed bigger than they were...

Joweese made a face at the direction that crab had gone and huffed. Dumb crab, couldn't have stayed still for just a second? She folded her arms and moved to follow Zahra. Who knew catching something so small would be so difficult? Maybe they needed a net? Where would they get a net? She paused, pondering all the places they could check, and only snapped from her thoughts when her sister fell over.

"Zahra!" She cried, kneeling next to Zahra. "Are you alright? Did the shell hurt you?"

Her eyes darted towards where Zahra was looking and widened. Whoooa, that shell was pretty! Tiny hands moved to scoop the shell up and inspect it, before catching onto something bigger.

"Oooh, Neska, Zahra! This whole is FULL OF SUPER PRETTY SHELLS!" She exclaimed, digging her hands down into the hole. "I've never seen so many before!"

"Yeah, I think so. The sand is nice and soft and warm." She explainedto both of the other girls, glad that it was a nice cushy landing. Tripping like that when she was up in the trees of Jauhar wouldn't have turned out so well. She was lucky though, here she had a lot of nice padding that was able to catch her and keep her from getting scuffed up too badly. Sure, she felt a little silly falling like that over something that wasn't even moving, but at least she had discovered something special it would seem?

She moved so that she was on her knees in front of the hole that her sister was digging out, her eyes going a bit wide as she dig up shell after beautiful shell, not what she was expecting at all when she was scolding the shell that had tripped her, "I... huh, seems like I am amazing even when I am not meaning to be!" She said, laughing a bit before she picked up a couple of the shells, looking them over, "How weird... how do you think that they got here?" It seemed strange that this many shells would end up in one place like this.

After a moment of thought she asked, "Do you think it's alright for us to take some of them? I mean it IS a lot of shells." She wasn't sure if it was a collection that belonged to someone else surely this fell under the the 'finders-keepers' rule didn't it?