weakahoshi | Adventure 4- Winter Forest

[After her last post, Shirahoshi spent a few nights at Spock's house while Spock stayed with Lupin. She could tell the arrangement made Spock uncomfortable, though, and so she talked herself into being brave and found herself an apartment of her own. She's been enjoying the view from the eighth floor of Community Housing 3 ever since, though sometimes she has to remind herself that she can leave whenever she wants.

Today is one of those days.

Everything seemed to be back to normal- by Luceti standards, at any rate- and Shirahoshi wanted to explore a little. So she bundles herself up, inflates a new bubble from her coral, and floats down to the ground floor. The trees above make a kind of tinkling noise, covered as they are in icicles and snow. It draws her in, and she floats quietly through the forest, gaping in awe. It's unlike anything she's ever dreamed of. There are a few critters still skittering about in the snow, and whenever she hears or catches them out of the corner of her eye it makes her heart nearly stop. But after a few minutes she's grinning, because this is adventure and she can't seem to get enough of it.

Until sometime in the afternoon, when the shadows have begun to stretch in winter's pale sunlight. Her stomach growls, and she realizes with a start that she's very cold, very hungry, and very, distinctly, lost.]

[The video starts with a sniffle. She's not crying, for once. She's just been out in the cold for awhile.]

Um... D- does anyone know the woods really well? I think I'm lost...

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[Draco himself isn't much for using the journal. His hands are humanoid enough, but claws never did well with turning very tiny pages, and so it's by chance alone that he would be in the part of the forest that Shirahoshi has wandered into.

Yet, even then, he's a great big dragon flying on his way somewhere. Right now he's skimming over the forest's top and, whatever he might be up to, Shirahoshi is likely to take note of him before he takes note of her. Luceti's people aren't such a rare sight to him, after all, so it isn't strange to notice just another human out and about.

Lucky for them, it's hard to miss Draco when he goes soaring by overhead, casting his great shadow down across the forest floor and disturbing the branches and wildlife with his passing.]

[Oh! Shirahoshi hadn't thought to fly over the tops of the trees! She uses her bubbly coral to add a bit of fresh air to the bubble holding her aloft, and goes after the dragon, being careful of branches as she passes through the canopy. Once she's above the trees, though, she can move quite fast. Slipping through air currents is a lot like maneuvering through ocean currents, and she picks it up easily. She's still not closing in on him as fast as she'd like, so she calls out ahead of her, hoping maybe he'll hear in spite of the rushing of the wind.]

Dragon-sama!!!

[And hear her he does. He cranes his head about to peek at the voice he heard somewhere behind him and, well, now there's a surprise! But rather than reply immediately, Draco searches out a spot he can land. It's simpler for him that way.

That means they both have to fly on for a minute longer, but a clearing eventually comes up. He drops out of the air, landing neatly in the space among all those trees. It's then that he looks up again and replies!]

What in the world is a mermaid doing flying around?

[She circles around and comes to a stop at eye level with the dragon, out of breath and giggling.]

Marco-sama found some bubbly coral for me. It's how we move around on land.

[Shirahoshi spins so he can get a good look at the bubble. Though there isn't really much to see, unless Draco digs pretty mermaids.]

[Too human and too fishy for his tastes, sadly! But the bubbly coral is interesting enough. He squints at it, uncertain.]

That's coral? It looks like a giant bubble to me. [If it works, though, it works.] You won't dry out on land?

[Shirahoshi shakes her head no.]

Maybe if I never get in water at all for a long time. But we have an island under the ocean where we live, so it isn't much different from here... Other than the trees. And the animals. And the sun...

[She pulls out the coral from... wherever it is she stashed it, and holds it on her palms for him to see.]

This is the coral. When I push the button, it makes bubbles like this one. There's a lot of it where I'm from, but I guess this is the only one that's ever shown up here in Luceti.

Edited 2013-01-02 22:31 (UTC)

[Coral with buttons?]

I thought they were supposed to be rocks... [That's about as strange as the bubble!] An island under the ocean is still under the water, however, so isn't it different in that? There'd be no air!

Adventure 4- Winter Forest

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