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 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:54 pm
That odd little jellyfish had finally let go and drifted off his or her own way. Tam hoped that the small thing would keep itself out of trouble, and be happy. While he couldn't honestly say he missed it, he could allow himself to be privately relieved that he was no longer being strangled. Still, he worried about the small thing. He never got a name, or even a gender. How could he have? The poor little thing couldn't speak. Still, it had managed to make desires known. Tam had known clearly when the small thing wanted him to go one way or another. He glanced back, half expecting to see it returning. So he wasn't looking where he was swimming....
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:58 pm
 Zahavah raced through the water, not paying attention to where she was going. She lived to take risks and this was just another risk for her to take. A risk that didn't pay off as she crashed head first into a large orangeish form.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:07 pm
He collided with the smaller orange soq. He gasped as they impacted and he spun back a bit before he was able to stabilize himself in the water. Once he stopped spinning, however, he realized he was upside down. He closed his eyes for a moment to regain his equilibrium. If he tried to right himself while so dizzy, who knew how he would have wound up. Once he was no longer dizzy, he righted himself, then cast about in the water, looking for whoever or whatever he had collided with.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:10 pm
Zahavah tumbled head over tail until she hit the sand and ended up half buried. For a moment, she just lay there, then she started laughing. That... was... AWESOME!
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:20 pm
He wove through the water to get closer to her. "Are you okay?" he asked, concerned. She - that was a she, right? - was laughing, so he presumed she was. But she could have just hit her head. It was hard to tell sometimes. Still, he worried. But that was Tam. He worried and fretted over others, until he was sure that they were alright. If he could help, he would. He still had constriction bruises to prove just how far he would go. He had caught his reflection in a shell not too long ago, and realized that he looked like he had been strangled by a seaweed garrote.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:23 pm
"That... was... AWESOME!" she laughed, squirming and wiggling until she could pop herself free from the sand.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:25 pm
Tam breathed out, relieved, and back finned enough to give the smaller soq room. "You are alright then?" he asked, just trying to get a confirmation from her. From the voice, he was hoping his original presumption was correct. He had never seen a soq quite like her, so it was hard to be certain. He didn't want to insult anyone, so he was being careful not to address her as miss or as sir, largely by not using any nomenclature at all.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:06 pm
"Yeah! We should so totally do that again!" she giggled. She shook herself all over then got a good look at him. "Wow, you've got a lot of hair."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:21 pm
He smiled warmly as his hair moved about him in the currents. His father was always on about Tam's hair as well. Apparently it was not just a family thing. "Thank you," he said warmly. Then, since he really wanted to know how to address this odd other, "I'm Tam."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:24 pm
"Tam? Is that your name or your species? I guess it'd be your name, since no one ever introduces themselves by their species," she flitted around him, studying him from every angle. "That'd be like me saying I'm a Nimp, or a Imixe, or whatever they wanna call me, when really I'm just Zahavah."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:28 pm
He chuckled. "Perhaps so, Zahavah. Alright, then. Tam is my name, really it is Tamveilin. But that is quite a mouthful, and I never remember how to spell it besides, so I go with Tam. As to what I am, I am a Mer, like my father. I admit that I have never met a nimp nor have I met a Imixie before this day."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:32 pm
"That's not really surprising," she chirpped, flipping so she was swimming upside down. He looked better that way. Kind of squidlike. It was funny. She grinned and considered telling him that, with his hair, he looked like a squid. Nah, better save that observation for later. "You got Imps and Nixies, and when you mash 'em together, you get an Imxie or a Nimp, or something like that. Anyway, you get me."
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:37 pm
Mash them together? Well that didn't sound pleasant. However she... she?... herself did. So perhaps it was not as...ah... squishy as he had imagined? still, he kept getting mental images of things being slammed together against a rock by the pounding surf. Thankfully he did not know what an imp or a nixie was, so his image was not any more detailed then that. "I see," he said, weakly, seeing more then he wanted to. Some days, having a good imagination was not a blessing.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:40 pm
"So, you're a mer? You look kinda like one of those big fells smashed together with a big fish. Is that what a mer is? Or is it something different? My people just recently came to this land, so we're still learning about all the races. Oh! I think I heard one of the nixies talking about meeting a bunch of water soqs, is that what you are? a waterhorse? Or would that be a sea horse since we're in the sea? Or is it the ocean? I can never keep these water bodies separate. Bodies of water?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:49 pm
At first he was mildly nauseated. This little one sure had a violent temperament. She just loved to smash folks together. Before she was done talking, however, he was having to remind himself that laughing would be rude. Quite rude indeed. "You just recently came to this land?" he asked, slightly amused as his fin flipped through the water lightly, inviting her to either laugh with him, or elaborate.
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