Evie
I'm growing up, but I'm not growing old
These silent communications drive home to Evie that she knows Hadama better than she thought to be able to understand him in this way. It shouldn't be so unexpected after nearly two years of friendship, but she has been without a long-term friend for so long that it feels new once more.
The way back is a little more difficult, Evie needing to loosely kick her feet to help them along, but it's nothing the pair can't handle together. The goldfish are out in numbers today - or perhaps they always are, and she simply cannot see them from land - and as they stream past in a school of gold and orange she feels envious once more of the beauty of this entirely novel realm.
It seems it was over far too soon, but as Evie emerges and the bubble dissipates, the tinnitus falls fully away and she is left soaked and beaming. "It was...gods, amazing! Such a different kind of beauty than I'm used to, and the sounds! It's muffled but the vibrations feel so obvious on the skin, is that what it's always like?" Evie feels like she has a million questions, and all of them compete to find their way out at once. "If someone speaks underwater, can you hear them? Do humans doing it sound different from mer? Or do you only utilize the Attuned link?" Shaking her head, wait hair clinging to her nape and down her back, the Evergreen laughs at herself. "Sorry, that's a lot. I almost forgot to tell you - the bubble works great, but it causes a terrible ringing in the ears after a moment. Must be where it gets its name." But she'd wear it ten times over to experience that again.
The way back is a little more difficult, Evie needing to loosely kick her feet to help them along, but it's nothing the pair can't handle together. The goldfish are out in numbers today - or perhaps they always are, and she simply cannot see them from land - and as they stream past in a school of gold and orange she feels envious once more of the beauty of this entirely novel realm.
It seems it was over far too soon, but as Evie emerges and the bubble dissipates, the tinnitus falls fully away and she is left soaked and beaming. "It was...gods, amazing! Such a different kind of beauty than I'm used to, and the sounds! It's muffled but the vibrations feel so obvious on the skin, is that what it's always like?" Evie feels like she has a million questions, and all of them compete to find their way out at once. "If someone speaks underwater, can you hear them? Do humans doing it sound different from mer? Or do you only utilize the Attuned link?" Shaking her head, wait hair clinging to her nape and down her back, the Evergreen laughs at herself. "Sorry, that's a lot. I almost forgot to tell you - the bubble works great, but it causes a terrible ringing in the ears after a moment. Must be where it gets its name." But she'd wear it ten times over to experience that again.
And I hate to do anything that I've been told
