The stillness of the dead creature and the lack of blood in the water had made it easy to miss at first, but when Maeve point it out the merman followed her gesture and the relaxed cast of his features hardened once more into stone-like stoicness.
He swam slowly towards it, examining the death wound alongside the Queen and nodded slowly, releasing a long breath as he gathered his thoughts. "No. I have come across this before. Entire pods of encantado. And Flora reported a herd of rhampire." He drew a little ways back from the body, his tail slashing uneasily through the water as he considered his next words carefully.
"Safrin... said that once, her worshipers made sacrifices to her like this. Long ago. But with the War, perhaps the old cults are returning?" Devout of the Old gods they might be, but no one wanted a cultist for a neighbor. It wasn't that far of a jump from dolphins to people, if left unchecked.
He swam slowly towards it, examining the death wound alongside the Queen and nodded slowly, releasing a long breath as he gathered his thoughts. "No. I have come across this before. Entire pods of encantado. And Flora reported a herd of rhampire." He drew a little ways back from the body, his tail slashing uneasily through the water as he considered his next words carefully.
"Safrin... said that once, her worshipers made sacrifices to her like this. Long ago. But with the War, perhaps the old cults are returning?" Devout of the Old gods they might be, but no one wanted a cultist for a neighbor. It wasn't that far of a jump from dolphins to people, if left unchecked.
