If Diana wasn't careful, she was going to end up splashed by an exuberant dragon - but then, the same could be said of Tal and Soleil. For the moment the geysers held Boreal's attention, freeing the humans to their task.
Tal didn't jump at the touch, but he looked a bit poleaxed at the intimate smile and ducked his head, ears turning a betraying shade of red. "Um. I dunno. If we just get th'blue water does it count as a whole ass rainbow?" Still, he didn't have any better ideas at the moment, so he dumped the silty water out of his jar and held it out so they could get a second rope around it.
Tal walked the long way around to the other side of the pool so they could dip the jar in to its steaming blue center. With both of them keeping the ropes taut they were able to raise it out again without spilling the contents or contaminating them with anything else in the water...
But though the captured water was perfectly clear, Tal realized a new problem. "So, uh... how do we get it back?" he asked, trying not to let his natural scowl of consternation do more than wrinkle his nose. His rope wasn't long enough to stretch across the pool's entire width!
Tal didn't jump at the touch, but he looked a bit poleaxed at the intimate smile and ducked his head, ears turning a betraying shade of red. "Um. I dunno. If we just get th'blue water does it count as a whole ass rainbow?" Still, he didn't have any better ideas at the moment, so he dumped the silty water out of his jar and held it out so they could get a second rope around it.
Tal walked the long way around to the other side of the pool so they could dip the jar in to its steaming blue center. With both of them keeping the ropes taut they were able to raise it out again without spilling the contents or contaminating them with anything else in the water...
But though the captured water was perfectly clear, Tal realized a new problem. "So, uh... how do we get it back?" he asked, trying not to let his natural scowl of consternation do more than wrinkle his nose. His rope wasn't long enough to stretch across the pool's entire width!
