I will. I think she'd like to meet you, too. Her name is Amalia. He thought that she would, in fact, be very eager to meet this nice young woman of a new species - a new world, really, given how different things seemed to be underwater. Amalia was as curious as he was, and he hoped that she'd find the merfolk as interesting as he did.
Not many lions came to the sea, he suspected, but you never knew where an Attuned might show up, and they weren't limited to certain hunting grounds and climates. It was something to worry about another day; instead he made his way through the sand seeking a stone for a mermaid - a situation he never would have expected to find himself in. At least he was successful in his mission and he sent a pulse of contented teamwork through the Attuned bond as he rose to the surface to get another full breath of air before diving again. It wasn't easy to force his body down when his long lungs made him buoyant, but he leveraged his grip on the rocks to make it happen so he could see what Delta was doing with the rock.
Success!
... more or less. The prize was less exciting than he'd hoped, but he rose back up to float on the surface, amused at the treasure and trying not to chuckle at Delta's question - he didn't want to get seawater up his nose, and she would have no way of knowing about human flatware, he assumed. She was being curious, something he wanted to encourage.
Let me see... He floated closer to inspect the knife, his tongue flicking out past the jewel in his mouth to taste the saltwater on it. It's a knife used for eating certain foods, he tried to explain. Some knives are used for fighting, and others for cutting meat, and those are very sharp. But this is a knife used for spreading a thick kind of... hmm. A kind of very thick cream, or a creamy paste made from thickened milk on bread or other foods. It doesn't need to be sharp because what it 'cuts' is so soft, and the dull edge is better for spreading that sort of paste more evenly and thickly. A sharp knife would spread it too thin. Jigano pulled away so as not to stray too close to Delta's spines accidentally.
Do merfolk use knives to hunt or fight or eat? She wasn't the only curious soul in the sea at the moment, after all.
Not many lions came to the sea, he suspected, but you never knew where an Attuned might show up, and they weren't limited to certain hunting grounds and climates. It was something to worry about another day; instead he made his way through the sand seeking a stone for a mermaid - a situation he never would have expected to find himself in. At least he was successful in his mission and he sent a pulse of contented teamwork through the Attuned bond as he rose to the surface to get another full breath of air before diving again. It wasn't easy to force his body down when his long lungs made him buoyant, but he leveraged his grip on the rocks to make it happen so he could see what Delta was doing with the rock.
Success!
... more or less. The prize was less exciting than he'd hoped, but he rose back up to float on the surface, amused at the treasure and trying not to chuckle at Delta's question - he didn't want to get seawater up his nose, and she would have no way of knowing about human flatware, he assumed. She was being curious, something he wanted to encourage.
Let me see... He floated closer to inspect the knife, his tongue flicking out past the jewel in his mouth to taste the saltwater on it. It's a knife used for eating certain foods, he tried to explain. Some knives are used for fighting, and others for cutting meat, and those are very sharp. But this is a knife used for spreading a thick kind of... hmm. A kind of very thick cream, or a creamy paste made from thickened milk on bread or other foods. It doesn't need to be sharp because what it 'cuts' is so soft, and the dull edge is better for spreading that sort of paste more evenly and thickly. A sharp knife would spread it too thin. Jigano pulled away so as not to stray too close to Delta's spines accidentally.
Do merfolk use knives to hunt or fight or eat? She wasn't the only curious soul in the sea at the moment, after all.
