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The next day, and Aerona was out again with Sophitia. She'd had a very successful day yesterday, but her vim had taken a hit.

"I think I saw a seadweller go this way..." Aerona mumbled. It was hard to tell in the dark water, and frankly it was unnerving. Seeing any amount of purple and glitter sparkle past in the water was enough to send any landdweller into a bit of a worried state. She took a deep breath and resolved to go back out. "You ready for another go, mum?"

Sophitia chattered delicately. Aerona was curled up inside the creaky boat. "Are you sure you don't want to just go back to the city?" Sophitia asked.

Aerona sighed and pressed her forehead into her knees. "Mmmmnnnno!"

She tightened her grip. She'd win, dang it. She'd do it for the redbloods. "Let's go... Over there!"

To where the seadweller had gone. In an effort to prove herself worthy, she'd chosen the most dangerous path. Aerona felt a tug as her lusus plunged, and the boat made its way to the first zone. It wasn't far down this time, and soon Sophitia had secured the first chunk.

Soon, she brought up a second. "Wow, that fish really didn't get all of the goods down there, did they?" Aerona mused. She settled down with it between her legs and laughed. "Guess they can't carry and swim at the same time!"

The third part surfaced. Aerona gave Sophitia a pat on the head and looked up at the clouds. A beautiful night sky. She hated going back to the city where the skies would be lessened by the night lights, but it was a risk she'd have to take to come out on top.

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Forera was starting to get used to the skin tight feel of the wetsuit. It was a little worrisome, what with her new robot arm and Muerte's specific instructions not to enter water, but oh well, ******** it, you only live once and all that jazz. As she navigated through the deep waters, the tealblooded female slipped through the waters wearily, careful as to not get caught the closer she wandered to another troll's stash of items. She inched closer, hand sorta... reaching out slightly before clasping over their item and eyeing it curiously. Maybe she could'a pocketed this one, before she wrecked s**t? Hmmm, maybe. It was so nice. As she crawled out she kicked a few of the treasures the other troll won and quickly swam away. Hell, she'd definitely done good.



Vremea actually quite liked swimming. In the past, she'd like to visit Old Hemisect for the simple reason of swimming in the ocean, but after she saw a purpleblood down there once, she decided to never go swim there ever again. Of course, that promise was broken during the war, but now that Old Hemisect was now Civisect, the place had been spiffied up quite a lot. Vremea jumped in and dove deep underwater, enjoying the lightweight feeling of swimming. Sometimes she wished she could breathe underwater. Other times, she was glad she wasn't one of those stupid entitled purplebloods. She carefully swam deeper, grabbing onto a few antiques before sliding a hand to hold them better. She swam up, finally finished, powerful legs taking her straight up. When she finally arrived, she placed them all on the ground tiredly.

Aerona got out plenty early this night. Her tactics seemed to be working well enough - strike quickly and get out of dodge to let the others eat her dust. She was gaining confidence now. Especially since the experts seemed to agree that her finds were top notch.

Sophitia, meanwhile, was finding it hard to find footing in the murky trench. As they searched in the deeper areas the rope stretched and made her wiggle her legs to swim, rather than preen the grounds.She strained to reach the silt underneath, and finally tugged on the line to reach it. On the surface, the boat rocked. Aerona clutched the sides fearfully. "Moooom!" She cried.

But Sophitia was far too deep to hear. She tried to regulate her breathing, hoping the rocking would be done soon.

Finally, her lusus resurfaced. "Thank gog," Aerona chirped. She put the piece in the boat and sighed as Sophitia dove again.

Sophitia tugged a piece of metal from the underwater rift's algae covered wall. It could have been a wing, or something! She recognized the curvature of the chunk, and a few bubbles escaped from her maw as she "smiled". She fluttered back up to the surface to deliver the goods.

Her third dive was much quicker. A little doo-hicky at the bottom of the rift caught her attention. Shiny! She thought it might not have been as useful as something like an engine part or a bit of the navigational systems, but it sure was pretty. She brought it up to the surface.

Aerona smiled with relief, and the two headed off soon after their sabotage. Good riddance.

She still had a top score! Heck yeah! Looked like either she had great methods, or Luxara was very lucky these past couple of nights. Word on the street was that some trolls were acting a little...less than stellar about the competition. Forera, from what she heard, was one of the accused. Hmm. Luxara didn't want to believe it, but at the same time, her biffle could be pretty rowdy. The greenblood supposed she'd just have to ask later when they were both at the booth. Or maybe when they headed back to the hotel for the night. Who knows! She had plenty of opportunity to figure out this mystery.

Taking that same boat out to the designated zone, she decided to yet again play it somewhat safe. Not going toooo far out, especially into possibly-choppier waters, Luxara cast her net and with each haul (one, two, threeee), pawed through the collection of boot-like junk, brine, and general crusty underwater stuff until she found some decent possibly-metal-hopefully items to take back to shore.