Sunjata's help made the work much easier, not least because the demigod's impressive strength allowed him to handle alone a task that would have taken several merely mortal people. Though Hadama's portion of the work required intense concentration to maintain the pressure on the water, he could still manage to form his questions and to listen to the Flood's answers.
Which were indeed interesting. Frey's dual aspect was known to the mermanta in an abstract sense, but he would have leaned towards Nature if he could not reach Safrin. He accepted Sunjata's explanation of his patron aspect with a pulse of understanding, but the bond sang softly with a thoughtful lack of words as Frey's advice was imparted.
Yes. I have been rooting out the void-touched flowers. But now... His brow creased in a faint furrow as he redoubled his efforts, cutting down at a sharp angle through the sand and seabed so the piling could be sunk deeply and sturdily into its new home. We are becoming overrun, he admitted reluctantly but with blunt honesty. Many animals are affected now, too. Every day it seemed like a report of a new species was coming in. Unsettling at best. Actively dangerous, more often than not.
On later retrospection Hadama might realize how inappropriate it was to ask Sunjata a question about Safrin, but in his worry and his focus on the task at hand he momentarily forgot the rumors of the friction that existed between the Flood and his former patroness. Of course, was all he murmured in acceptance of the apology.
The first piling sank down to the marking on its trunk and Hadama released his magic and drew more water past his gills, nodding for the orca to surface if he needed to. The mermanta joined him, calling the attention of the humans on land to bring another of the large poles. Have the creatures in King's End been affected as well?
Which were indeed interesting. Frey's dual aspect was known to the mermanta in an abstract sense, but he would have leaned towards Nature if he could not reach Safrin. He accepted Sunjata's explanation of his patron aspect with a pulse of understanding, but the bond sang softly with a thoughtful lack of words as Frey's advice was imparted.
Yes. I have been rooting out the void-touched flowers. But now... His brow creased in a faint furrow as he redoubled his efforts, cutting down at a sharp angle through the sand and seabed so the piling could be sunk deeply and sturdily into its new home. We are becoming overrun, he admitted reluctantly but with blunt honesty. Many animals are affected now, too. Every day it seemed like a report of a new species was coming in. Unsettling at best. Actively dangerous, more often than not.
On later retrospection Hadama might realize how inappropriate it was to ask Sunjata a question about Safrin, but in his worry and his focus on the task at hand he momentarily forgot the rumors of the friction that existed between the Flood and his former patroness. Of course, was all he murmured in acceptance of the apology.
The first piling sank down to the marking on its trunk and Hadama released his magic and drew more water past his gills, nodding for the orca to surface if he needed to. The mermanta joined him, calling the attention of the humans on land to bring another of the large poles. Have the creatures in King's End been affected as well?
