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 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:33 pm
"No, he doesn't want that at all. I even offered to live in a tank...and you know how I hate small spaces. He won't let me give this up, he knows I would never be happy without this."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:37 pm
"You offered to live in a tank for this boy?" Natalia repeated moving up to put a hoof to her forehead. "No fever..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:39 pm
She nodded. "Yes. I love being with him and hate when I'm not."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:43 pm
Natalia sighed, "You've really got it bad...But Naida, you're still very young. I mean...there Are a lot of fish in the sea, you don't have to go reaching up into the sky..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:46 pm
"But those fish are so dull and prissy. I want a man, even if he is a bird brain." She felt a pang of lonliness with that, that was something she would have said to Proteus. "Young or not, He's mine. I don't want anyone else."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:49 pm
"But..." Natalia sighed. "How do you think this could work? Your scales are already showing the stress of being out of the water so much. If you continue to expose them to the air like that they'll only continue to deteriorate..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:55 pm
She looked away, "I don't know...They'll grow back, won't they? Fish lose scales all the time..."
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:59 pm
"Naida, if this is what's happening overtly to your scales what do you think your time out of the water is doing to the rest of your body?" Natalia asked gently. "Merponys live in the seas for a reason..."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:04 am
"This is killing me?" She put her head in her hooves. How was she going to tell Proteus...He'd never see her again. She nodded, coming to a conclusion. She just wouldn't tell Proteus.
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:07 am
"We don't know that for certain," Natalia said feeling her own heart ache for the girl and her sorrow. "I just need you to remember things are a certain way for a reason. Our bodies are not made to be out of the water for long periods of time..."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:10 pm
"Yes, of course Natalia...I'll remember that."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:26 pm
"Well," Natalia sighed. "You should okay now, at least your tail should be. And if I've done my job right you won't even have a scar..."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:59 pm
"Thank you Natalia. I'd get up and hug you, but I'm still a little sore and very tired."
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:02 pm
"Which is why you're going to rest," Natalia said pulling a blanket over her.
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:15 pm
"Thanks again Natalia..." She smiled and her body moved like it was curling around Proteus, but she was cold and it drove her back to a state of reality and she moved into a ball to keep warm.
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