bioluminescent
This Dreaming has a sea. That's really all Pela requires, even if some of the marine life is unfamiliar to her - but then, hasn't the Dreaming been foreign to her people for a long time? She'll learn to adapt, and to sacrifice, even if it hurts her pride. For now, she is swimming near a long wooden dock on the beach at high noon, sunlight bright ( Read more... )
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James isn't swimming, although he's thinking about it for later. No, he's carrying his shoes, his sleeves and trousers rolled up and his jacket over his arm, wandering down the dock from the beach. He's carrying some newspapers (from assorted sources), and this is a nice enough place for a bit of privacy to pick through them and see if there's anything that jumps out at him.
As it were.
He sits down, his feet hanging over the edge.
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...what.
Humans are so oblivious, she thinks, snaking forward under the water. Pela can feel vibrations, even above water, though they aren't quite as strong there, and she's somewhat surprised she's gone unnoticed- but then she's swum underneath boats full of fishermen and stolen their lures without ever getting caught. (That was when she was a tiny thing, though, she's a nix now and knows better. Mostly.)
He might notice something - a female shape, gold-brown eyes, unblinking - watching him from under the water, after a while.
Because that's not creepy, or anything, Pela.
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Oblivious is a word. It may not be the word for James, but it's one that could be used. It doesn't take him especially long to realize he's being watched, and he twitches aside one half of his newspaper at a corner to look down to see who or what has their eye on him.
He's beginning to consider that the nexus might actually be some kind of psychotic break on his part, but (he notes this coolly in the back of his mind) despite everything, it seems unlikely. Which means that there is an otherworldly woman of some kind watching him from beneath the water.
He raises his eyes to what passes for sky around here with an expression that might translate well to fuck my life, and then he gives her a politely apologetic smile and pulls his feet up onto the dock, tipping his head. Hello? Yes?
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Oh, well, now he's noticed, she notes with some satisfaction. It took less time than a lot of humans probably would. She rises out of the water up to her bare shoulders.
"You should keep your feet up," she says, matter-of-fact, "there are sharks. I hit one earlier."
...yes, she is implying she casually struck a shark, because she did and would do again. They're like big unruly dogs to Pela; while they might try to prey on some other supernatural sea beings, she isn't really concerned. (To start: her apsarae means that she's poisonous!)
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