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He was full of questions for the beautiful pool, but he didn't want to seem to be drilling her so he tried to think of some really good ones. "I wish we had this in Jauhar, its usually dark there with lots of glowing things and growing things but here there is so much light and crawly life that it just seems like a whole different world to me." He didn't feel like he was even on the same continent.

"Do these live here all the time or do they change with the tide?" He could see the water sneaking up, if it could engulf the tide pool that would leave its contents free to leave right? The ocean it seemed was full of wonders.

He paused about to poke the same barnacle. "Its dark, because the giant trees have many many leaves that block out the light even in day, everything glows at night especially, even some of the people. They are called shifters, the ones with grey skin during the day." He stood and spread his arms like the great trees, wiggling his fingertips like leaves disturbed by wind. Then he gestured at his blue skin.

"Many different peoples live there now, but before it was mostly alkidikes and shifters, worshippers of trees and the moon respectively. The alkidikes are fierce warriors not all of them obsessed with being the dominant species like most people thought once upon a time. My mother is an alkidike and my father an iceling, together we as a family," he brought his hands together, "live in Jauhar and follow the iceling customs. Mom refused to deal with the cold of Zena."

"Always remember that Jauhar has predators of both the two legged and four legged varieties, we were attacked by creatures called radaku, you might have seen some wander through town with their people aye? Well the wild ones are less then friendly and eat meat. So its best to be in the trees in the dark or in a dwelling or with radaku of your own at night." He shuddered at repressed memories, but brushed his arms off to relieve the goose bumps.

"There are sweet things there, small cute fish in jars and other things, more fruit then you can imagine, not much in the way of red meat but lots of high protien bugs end up on the dinner table."

"I wouldn't mind showing you around, I'm sure you would like some of the lakes we have there, no oysters sadly but lots of other things, its very different from here." Personally he liked Matori better but that was because he was from Jauhar and it was associated with some unpleasant memories.

He would show her the wonder of Jauhar and do his best to avoid the pain so that she at least would have a good experience with it.

"Sea bugs?" That sounded fascinating. "What do they look like?" He had a pretty vivid imagination but the monsters that appeared in his head probably were not close to the truth. "Are they big?"

Theriar studied the pictures critically, "Sea bugs...." He bet they tasted good? Maybe a little fishy? Not that he had eaten fish before when there had been red meat and bugs around but well, he should try new things right.

He wanted to catch all the things and have her tell him about them, that would be fun. "How do you catch them? Do they live in the tide pools? Why does that thing have claws? What could it possibly grab down there? Other fish?"

He covered his mouth with his hand and gave her a flat look. "I'm sorry, I ask too many questions, I've just never been this well, interested..in anything before."

Well that sounded like fun too. He continued to look at the drawing imagining what the creatures looked like in real life. There were just so many wonders out here, not the least of which was Trelenwy herself, he really enjoyed her company. So he did his best to stay in it for the rest of the day.

He was very glad he had come to Matori, it was fulfilling here unlike home.