Pressure and then pain flared through his back, and Hadama grunted at the long, wicked scraping. Still, it was not an attack, and far from lethal. I am alive, he reassured Ray, though distance would make his mental voice faint, if it could reach her at all.
Continue, he bade his people meanwhile. We repay our debts to the airbreathers. The humans who had made canals and monsoon walls and healing fountains that benefitted mer as much as themselves now needed help in return, and the merfolk who had come with him were rising magnificently to the occasion. He couldn't be prouder of them as he spiraled down through the murky, churning water, holding tightly to his trident and letting its tines of starlight provide some small illumination as he sought that ancient, tragic legend of the Pool.
The world changes, he called to it, more with images of the destruction above and around the Pool than words. It is not safe here. The deeper ocean seemed less affected for the time being, if the L'ma could - or would be willing to - reach it.
Hadama encourages his people to continue helping the humans escape the tragedy while he seeks the L'ma to coax it to safer waters.
Aquaportation: cooldown 2/3
Continue, he bade his people meanwhile. We repay our debts to the airbreathers. The humans who had made canals and monsoon walls and healing fountains that benefitted mer as much as themselves now needed help in return, and the merfolk who had come with him were rising magnificently to the occasion. He couldn't be prouder of them as he spiraled down through the murky, churning water, holding tightly to his trident and letting its tines of starlight provide some small illumination as he sought that ancient, tragic legend of the Pool.
The world changes, he called to it, more with images of the destruction above and around the Pool than words. It is not safe here. The deeper ocean seemed less affected for the time being, if the L'ma could - or would be willing to - reach it.
Hadama encourages his people to continue helping the humans escape the tragedy while he seeks the L'ma to coax it to safer waters.
Aquaportation: cooldown 2/3
