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[light_another_life]

Sea monsters aren't typically in this area, but sometimes things can go wrong and a sea beast will rise up from the depths to try and drag the ship down with them to munch on the tasty humans inside. Sometimes when this happens, the ship gets away, if the people on it are clever or have the right enchanted items or have a particular talent for magic. More often than not, though - they don't.

So even when a sea monster attack is very, very unlikely, if Lirlaveth notices a ship anywhere nearby, she'll put what she's doing on hold and quietly follow the ship to make sure it's not going to be attacked by a murderous monster that wants to eat humans. Or, if it is, to help prevent the humans from becoming food.

She's spotted one such ship, and so even though it means putting her study into enchantment on hold, she goes to follow it to make sure it'll be all right. Probably just paranoia (sea beast attacks aren't that common), but it might turn out to be justified one day.

Comments

[gloriousdawn]

"Ooh, you picked up 'memory', nice," says Idalta. ('You' seems to be accomplished by pointing.)

[light_another_life]

Smile. Nod. Not quite what she was aiming for, but she realizes she wasn't super clear.

She points at herself, she signs Memory, then she points at Idalta and signs Speak.

Does that get across what she's trying to say?

[gloriousdawn]

"...I'm feeling the lack of vocabulary here," says Idalta. "Your memory and me speaking could be a lot of things. You want me to tell you if you're remembering something right...?"

[light_another_life]

Nod, nod! Encouraging smile.

[gloriousdawn]

"Sure, okay."

[light_another_life]

She practices signs!

She gets them all mostly right, but she makes some subtle mistakes with a few.

[gloriousdawn]

Idalta names all of the signs and corrects the ones that need it.

[light_another_life]

Excellent, that was the point of the exercise. She extra-practices the ones that needed correcting, nods, and then makes a motion for Idalta to go on. Presumably with vocabulary.

[gloriousdawn]

Vocabulary!

[thisbrokenworld]

And then two more girls who look just like Idalta except less wet come down the beach.

[light_another_life]

Lirla spots them first.

It's sort of a pity that she still lacks vocabulary, but she gently interrupts vocabulary lessons to point.

[gloriousdawn]

"Oh, finally," says Idalta.

[thisbrokenworld]

"Hello. We brought clothes," says one of the sisters, holding out a bundle of fabric to Lirlaveth.

[light_another_life]

Hello, she signs, followed by, Thank you!

Clothes! What kind of clothes are they, are they obvious to use? She has never worn trousers before.

[nothing_noble]

"Hi," says/signs the third sister. "Do you need help figuring out the clothes?"

[light_another_life]

Slightly helpless nod.

Also the legs, she'd say if she could talk, but she can't, so she doesn't.

[nothing_noble]

"Sure, okay."

The third sister attempts to explain the secrets of underpants.

[light_another_life]

Excellent, that's very helpful.

Soon enough she has on underpants and is gallantly struggling with trousers. Legs are hard to use when she's never had them before, and putting on trousers while sitting down is not exactly easy. Ugh. This is annoying.

She manages, but it's annoying.

[nothing_noble]

"Congrats," says the third sister, signing excellent/success. "So, I'm Amain, and that's Esri, and I guess Idalta's probably introduced herself by now."

[light_another_life]

Nod! Smile. Thank you, she signs.

.... She ended up erasing her name for new drawings. She looks at Idalta in a 'Please tell them my name' kind of way.

[gloriousdawn]

"And this is Lirlaveth. She's a siren."

[thisbrokenworld]

"I noticed that."

[light_another_life]

... Headtilt? She doesn't look doubtful, just curious.

[thisbrokenworld]

"I saw you in the mirror when you were rescuing Idalta."

[light_another_life]

Oh. Yes, that makes sense. Nod.