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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:03 pm
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"No." She grumbled, elongating the word into a rather upset groan. He nudged her, and she just continued to lay there, hating everything about today, right down to the texture of whatever this was against her face. Heck, it even included the talons that nudged her, though they were long gone.
She heaved a few coughs though, as he made her remember that there was actually an awful taste in her mouth. In a moment of brilliance she turned her head to spit, but it sadly didn't help much. Well, at least she tried. Finally she placed webbed hands on the ground and pushed herself up just enough to get these knees of hers under her. Then sitting up was pretty easy, even of the whole affair was slouched and minimal.
"What's wrong with the water?" She asked him pathetically, reaching up to full-hand paw the tangled mass of her hair away from her face.
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:43 pm
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Em gagged again, then let out yet another long, drawn out whine.
"This's stupid and I want home!" She wailed unhappily, hearing his explanation but not quite understanding a good half of it. "Nooo---" Yet another wail was in the works, but before it could really gain traction she happened to actually look at him. His horns, head finns, glowy blobby bits and markings were all taken in slowly and one after another. Though the move was hidden, she gave a long, slow blink. For a moment she went slack jawed, showing some points of her needled teeth.
"You're from the depths?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:31 pm
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So Merope was the one who tried to dig into their home? He ruined so many rooms, he was so large! Excitement faded from Em's expression at his recounting of that particular memory, and she responded with a simple and dreamy: "We ate so well…"
"Bah." She grumped. School rules. School was stupid. Em stared down at his feet, then looked back at hers. They looked different, but they were still vastly different from what they should have had. "No," Came a brand new whine. "It's too bright. These help but not much." Though she didn't gesture to her goggles, they were certainly the point she had been trying to make. "I'm warm and dry and itchy all over and my fins hurt and the green stuff is pointy and this here is scratchy and hard and this place is just awful." With a huff she simply fell to the side and stayed put, letting her tangle of hair shade her face.
"And this pool burns and it's not even real water!" She did dredge up the energy to lift her head and give a real, feral hiss to the algae-infested pool before she fell back into being a complete lump. "How'd you do it, Merope? Survive up here?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:43 pm
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Merope stared. "You ate part of my face?!" He covered his mouth with a hand in mock-horror. "But that was my face! How could you? I had to work for three weeks straight just to earn enough to get a new face. You guys left a bunch of little teeth marks over my previous one."
When she flopped over onto her side, Merope sat down and curled his tail away from her, around his talons. "Rule one: don't swim in this pool," he began. "All sorts of other students use it so it's always gross and nasty. It's not even salt water. It's gross water." He reached out with a talon and poked the surface, peeling off a strip of algae in the process. "In town there's a shared salt-pool that's better than this place, but you have to pay to get in. Otherwise there's all sorts of ponds and rivers, but it'll burn since it's fresh water."
"Rule two? Stay damp. You get used to it after awhile, but..." He trailed off, grimacing as he wiggled his talon. "Eeeugh, I think it's stuck to me. Grosssssss," Merope wiggled his toe, then shook his foot until the offending plant flew off further into the pool.
"Blech. How long have you been up here? There are some good things about this place, y'know. For one, there aren't many bigger things that try to eat you or steal from you. It's... nice."
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