The voice caught her off guard, somewhat, when it came from the stranger before her. To her eyes, she was different to everything she’d seen of those who walked the land. She did not have a sheen of light upon her coat, and there was something skeletal about her - but maybe this was the way of some of them. Indrani’s head twisted slightly in place, water rippling around her neck as droplets ran down her fin in rivulets.
The question was peculiar. How could she be cold? The thought was alien to her, and so it was here that the kelpie gave a flex of her tail until her fins breached the surface, her tail cutting through the tension like a knife as she twisted it to the side. Hidden just beneath in the shallows, where hind legs might have been, her powerful pelvic fins flared out as they supported her as the ocean’s current dragged under her.
“Why would I be cold? The water is as lovely as ever!” She speaks, her voice soothing and high, an innocence to it that was everything she was. Indrani remained there, until she looked again at the stranger.
Her eyes saw the animal with her, clinging to her and looking like it was hanging. Her ears pricked upright, and she rose a little from the water - still not ready to her go of her fins, but curiosity was winning over her fear.
“What is that with you?” she asks in a bright voice. There was no harm to her question, she’d never seen animals of the land and only those with fins, scales and rubbery skin, each a predator of another beneath the waves - nothing existed down there like either of them.
Indrani was transfixed.
@Luvena
The question was peculiar. How could she be cold? The thought was alien to her, and so it was here that the kelpie gave a flex of her tail until her fins breached the surface, her tail cutting through the tension like a knife as she twisted it to the side. Hidden just beneath in the shallows, where hind legs might have been, her powerful pelvic fins flared out as they supported her as the ocean’s current dragged under her.
“Why would I be cold? The water is as lovely as ever!” She speaks, her voice soothing and high, an innocence to it that was everything she was. Indrani remained there, until she looked again at the stranger.
Her eyes saw the animal with her, clinging to her and looking like it was hanging. Her ears pricked upright, and she rose a little from the water - still not ready to her go of her fins, but curiosity was winning over her fear.
“What is that with you?” she asks in a bright voice. There was no harm to her question, she’d never seen animals of the land and only those with fins, scales and rubbery skin, each a predator of another beneath the waves - nothing existed down there like either of them.
Indrani was transfixed.
@Luvena
