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 Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:43 am
So it moved. The phenomena sounded positively fascinating and Xaivary decided right there that she was going to hang around the coast at least until nightfall... maybe she would spend the night in one of those caves and set out in the morning, then?
Mind whirring a mile a minute for a moment as Xaivary made her plans, she was about to ask Honey once again about the caves when her eyes caught on Honey's necklace and she was reminded of her other original purpose for coming here. She'd wanted to find some seashells.
Well, it was a while before nightfall, there was time to ask about the caves later, right? "Where do the seashells come from?" she asked, motioning toward Honey's bit of decoration. "I saw somebody else had one... it looked different though. It was... swirly."
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:55 am
Her shells?
Well truth be told her father had given her the necklace as a gift when he returned from his trip; the unique glimmer of the shells was attainable only in one of those obscure locations he scuttled off to frequently. She had loved it the second she had seen it and reveled in it's beauty. However that didn't mean shells were impossible to acquire and nor were the ones on this side of the world too difficult to locate either - Xai would just need to be patient and according to her overall mannerisms that probably wouldn't be too difficult at all! This in mind Honey offered one of her usual smiles and turned her head in the direction of the sea, a small and very slight nod. It was barely visible but if she shook her head anymore she'd probably land on her rump and she wasn't really in the mood for humiliation!
"The shells that are left behind by their owners line the shores; they get washed up," she explained. She took a few more steps towards the water's edge and glanced about her in an attempt to find the pale white shells or the glimmer of pearl that gave away their positioning. "You can find them pretty easily on sunny ddays because the pearl inside them looks like it's glowing but on darker days you have to look more closely." She continued. Her explanation seemingly finished, she turned back towards the mare in the hops that she had indeed understood it - really there was nothing to finding them.
...In fact, most everything on the coast was easy to locate.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:58 am
Eventually Xaivary would likely spend enough time on the coast to come to that conclusion herself, and if she hadn't encountered Honey to have her questions answered she would probably have eventually found out much of the information she had asked about so far. But probably not about the seaweed.
She followed Honey in her few steps toward the water as she listened to the other mare's explanation, and then took a few more of her own. "I'm gonna see if I can find one then. Souvenier to remember my trip and the nice mare who got me lunch and put up with all my questions." She flashed Honey a brief grin at that and then started casting her gaze about the sand in search of anything that looked... seashell-y.
It looked like it was going to take quite a bit of time, actually. Not so much in just finding a seashell, but many of them were chipped, cracked, and broken in spite of the extra care she started taking with pawing them out of the sand with her hoof after the first one. She glanced back at Honey after a few such discoveries. "I guess the owners usually get rid of them because they're broken?" She wasn't going to give up the search but it was proving more difficult than she'd first suspected. Life was rarely that easy though, so she wasn't suprised.
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:09 pm
"Maybe, I've never really had the chance to ask any of them," she replied, watching the mare as she drifted back and forth in search of seashells. There could be many reasons for the cracks and the breaks but Honey had never had the opportunity to ask them. She tended to marvel at the pearlescent nature that lay beneath the thick white surface and proceeded to ignore the damage caused by weathering or other occurances - they were pretty to her but finding a large and unbroken shell was understandably difficult now that the issue had been raised by Xai.
Alas, time always paid off and though Honey couldn't assist in her search for the perfect shell she knew in time that the ocean would provide one. Admittedly it may take a few days to produce but Xai seemed like the wandering type and when the time came she would find it. Patience often paid off though if she desired a souveneir the grey mare could only hope that her guest found one that was suitable soon.
...Then again even if she didn't and found one days down the line then she would recall her meeting fondly.
"Maybe if you tried looking beneath the water you might find a few?" She offered helpfully, musing over the possibility that not all of those had been trodden or battered by rocks just yet.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:22 pm
Taking the suggestion offered by Honey, the brown mare drifted a bit further toward the water. Xai didn't know that she was really looking for a whole one, per say, though it would be nice. She would probably know what she was looking for when she found it. And after a few more minutes, she thought perhaps she had.
It seemed unusual for one to be broken clean in half when so many of the others had broken into small pieces, or had jagged edges. She peered at it for a moment before picking up the halves and trotting back toward Honey. She set them back down once she was close to admire the odd symmetry and the pearly inner curve. "That one's kinda neat, huh?" She gave Honey a moment to look at them before picking them up and tucking them into her scarf.
She might go looking for some more later. Tomorrow, perhaps. There were other things to be seen today, she was sure. For the moment she was satisfied with her find.
There was less of that itch in her legs to be off doing something now that she'd been walking around for a while. Xaivary turned to gaze out at sea for a moment before turning to Honey again. "So... what do you do all day out here when you don't have company?"
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