Food might have been an uncertainty but sitting? Sitting sounded amazing and Tal nodded vigorously (with some more water being flung around in the process). He sank down gratefully on the sensually soft blanket next to a shallow, iced bowl of oysters on the halfshell and frozen chocolate covered bananas on convenient skewers.
Tal picked one of the mussel shells up, eying it suspiciously, but didn't try to eat it for the moment. "Haven't been down to them, yet. There's so many... y'know... people in that area," Tal admitted, scowling at the thought of all that humanity crowding around and jostling. He tucked a fold of the towel under his arm to hold it in place and poked at the soft, squishy mussel meat with clear misgiving. "Didn't y'get cold, though?" Probably hard to flaunt the wares in a full parka and snow pants.
He just nodded at Frey's kindness; he'd experienced it himself firsthand just now, but Nature-Frey had certainly helped the people of Halo out before. "Water's something you walk on," he agreed, with all the fervent belief of a native Halovian. "That much unfrozen stuff is just weird." You could take the courier out of Halo, as the saying went.
But getting Halo out of the courier was going to take a few more seasons of work.
Tal picked one of the mussel shells up, eying it suspiciously, but didn't try to eat it for the moment. "Haven't been down to them, yet. There's so many... y'know... people in that area," Tal admitted, scowling at the thought of all that humanity crowding around and jostling. He tucked a fold of the towel under his arm to hold it in place and poked at the soft, squishy mussel meat with clear misgiving. "Didn't y'get cold, though?" Probably hard to flaunt the wares in a full parka and snow pants.
He just nodded at Frey's kindness; he'd experienced it himself firsthand just now, but Nature-Frey had certainly helped the people of Halo out before. "Water's something you walk on," he agreed, with all the fervent belief of a native Halovian. "That much unfrozen stuff is just weird." You could take the courier out of Halo, as the saying went.
But getting Halo out of the courier was going to take a few more seasons of work.
