Hadama blinked and raised his head.
To say he looked somewhat... nonplussed might be an understatement. Of all the possible responses to his prayer, it was safe to say that this particular one - in all its taped-star glory - had not been particularly high on his list. Indeed, it had not only not been on his list, it had in fact been in a different notebook entirely three towns over, where a young man wrote down his dreams on the nights when he had eaten cheese particularly late.
But the mermanta was not one to neglect courtesy just because his brain had momentarily frozen in shock. "Thank you, Lu... Sa... ah. Hm. ...Thank you," he recovered, trying to restore a little of his dignity at being caught so flat-finned. "On behalf of Torchline." He bowed deeply from the water, for respect was never amiss when dealing with a god. Goddess. Deity of any persuasion. "We may need all the luck we can get."
~Fin?~
To say he looked somewhat... nonplussed might be an understatement. Of all the possible responses to his prayer, it was safe to say that this particular one - in all its taped-star glory - had not been particularly high on his list. Indeed, it had not only not been on his list, it had in fact been in a different notebook entirely three towns over, where a young man wrote down his dreams on the nights when he had eaten cheese particularly late.
But the mermanta was not one to neglect courtesy just because his brain had momentarily frozen in shock. "Thank you, Lu... Sa... ah. Hm. ...Thank you," he recovered, trying to restore a little of his dignity at being caught so flat-finned. "On behalf of Torchline." He bowed deeply from the water, for respect was never amiss when dealing with a god. Goddess. Deity of any persuasion. "We may need all the luck we can get."
~Fin?~
