He had missed his friend in Deepfrost. He understood the difficulty in traveling from Halo in the cold season, and he knew that her duties as Warden kept her there much as his own kept him in Torchline. At least, most of the time.
But there were times they could slip away from the responsibilities they had embraced, or at least widen the scope of them to include a little exploration outside their usual swimming grounds. The mermanta had been looking forward to meeting with the apothecary today, both for her companionship and to explore the possibilities of the Ringing Algae that he had learned about from the Fae.
He had brought a small colony of the algae out of the sunken caverns below and closer to the surface to tend, and the imposing King hunched over his small aquaculture, painstakingly trimming away dead winter growth below the water to encourage new air sacs, using a tiny pair of scissors in his large hands.
Evie
Ringing Algae (common) - A species of massive algae that grows in the underwater caverns of the Stone Symphony. Due to its size, the air bubbles it produces are large and sturdy enough for a human to stick their head into and breathe for a time, however doing so will cause a period of tinnitus to follow.
But there were times they could slip away from the responsibilities they had embraced, or at least widen the scope of them to include a little exploration outside their usual swimming grounds. The mermanta had been looking forward to meeting with the apothecary today, both for her companionship and to explore the possibilities of the Ringing Algae that he had learned about from the Fae.
He had brought a small colony of the algae out of the sunken caverns below and closer to the surface to tend, and the imposing King hunched over his small aquaculture, painstakingly trimming away dead winter growth below the water to encourage new air sacs, using a tiny pair of scissors in his large hands.
Evie
Ringing Algae (common) - A species of massive algae that grows in the underwater caverns of the Stone Symphony. Due to its size, the air bubbles it produces are large and sturdy enough for a human to stick their head into and breathe for a time, however doing so will cause a period of tinnitus to follow.
