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 Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:37 pm
While her island home held no end of lush tropical forests, tall hills and craggy peaks to explore, it was the warm waters that surrounded it which Mairin loved most. There was a whole other world beneath the often deceptively calm surface of the sea. Schools of colourful fish, weird looking plants and a whole host of things Mairin wasn't sure what they were lived down here. What she did know was that the sea brought a sort of peace to her when calm and gave her a sense of gut twisting thrill when it became choppy and she had to struggle to swim. For all the girl wanted a dragon, she was even training as a white candidate after all, someday and longed to take to the skies she would always be partial to water.
At the moment though the teen was working, collecting shellfish in a small cove. It and the nearby tidepools seemed to attract the edible sea creatures and Mairin was only too happy to harvest them when she could. They were a favoured food of hers and well worth the effort necessary to pry them from the seabed or dig them out of the sand. Mairin's lungs had started to burn just as she freed another from it's perch in a rocky underwater crevasse. Careful not to cut her fingers on the razor sharp shell, Mairin slipped her prize into a cloth bag, tied to her waist, to join his fellows.
A moment later her head broke the surface of the water and the girl gulped for air. She tread water as the racing in her heart slowed, dark bangs plastered to her forehead by the water. It was a good haul so far, enough to make a small meal with.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:00 pm
Kaeyne disliked clams. Shellfish. Whatever the things were called, he never cared overmuch. He hated how they were slick and slimy, stuck in ones throat when they were being eaten. He hated how they had to be pried open, so different from fish or mammals that could be sliced through the front and cut apart with something other than a blunted knife.
They tasted weird, they made him gag. Kaeyne simply did not want to be around them, at any point in time. Those that found them appealing or would even waste their time trying to hunt down the slimy meals were even less attractive - especially the girl who surfaced and began heading to the shore he stood on, fishing knife in hand. (While it had been made, in part, from a thicker shell of one of those disgusting creatures, Kaeyne did not think of it when he used the item.)
To speak? Not to speak? Screw it, she was there and getting closer every moment. It'd be somewhat awkward not to speak (and he was not Adetsu, that man would probably have just stood there and stared).
"All that work for slimy things that taste like salt?" he said, instead of nothing. Nothing would have been kinder, perhaps, if he'd kept quiet.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:44 pm
" I like salt and I'm not afraid of work." Mairin retorted, an amused look on her face. She didn't quite recognize this guy but it was easy enough to see he was no stranger to work himself. Dark brown eyes glanced at the knife in his hand and Mairin hoped he was out here hunting something and not looking for trouble. Running on sand was a nice workout but not conducive to fast getways, not that she was positive she could get away from him. He had a few inches and definitely a few years on her.
Water lapped at Mairin's ankles and dark wet sand squished between her toes as she held her ground. She liked people and chatting up strangers, even knife carrying ones so long as they meant no real harm.
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Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:15 pm
He'd have to be blind to miss the way she stood or how her eyes flicked from his knife to build and back to his face. The shellfish hunter didn't seem to be afraid. All well and good but, being himself, and in a fit of something nearly malicious, Kaeyne toyed with that fishing knife in his hand, wedged it from one hand to the other. Right.
"Right. Of course." He said, eyes quiet and on the girl. Then, a smile. It was quick and distant, but a smile never the less. He looked away from her and squinted out towards the horizon. "Did you scare all the animals away? I was going to go fishing of some sort. For things other than shellfish."
Another twist of the knife and it tucked itself away in his small side bag. "Right," Kaeyne said again, eyes still slitted to the sealine. "Well, enjoy your slimy meal, then."
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:34 pm
It was as though the very idea of shellfish seemed to offend him, Mairin mused. Honestly it was one thing not to like the taste but wasn't he taking it a bit far? Still she tried not to let it irk her too much, it wasn't as if he was really judging her because of food she liked, right?
"You're fine to look for other things," she replied with a quick smile. "The fish here are pretty used me by now." Which wasn't to say that they didn't swim away if she got too close or reached for them but for the most part whole schools no longer darted off to the other end of the cove at her very presence. It was sort of nice in a way to be accepted as just another part of the underwater environment. She was a sometimes predator but the things she didn't prey on took little notice of her here.
As she spoke Mairin reached up to wring saltwater from her braid, lessening it's weight and the pull on her head in the process. Ever since she was small Mairin had always found it interesting how light she felt in the water but how much heavier she seemed when she came out.
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