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Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

He seemed to be so curious about this tiny bathroom that she actually wondered just what he would say when he actually got a good view of the outside. One one side of her house was a secluded beach where they often kept their ships and on the other side he would probably be able to see the sky scrapers in the horizon. If this was interesting just think what would happen when he saw airplanes or cars. How would she even explain such things to him anyway? Maybe she could just say they were large metal animals and leave it at that. The poison? Ok, so no Chlorine. Sera let out a breath of relief that she had even actually bothered asking him about that. It would take a bit to take the chlorine out and refile the pool but it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. At least then she wouldn't have to deal with him dying. Well, I kind of caught you and took you away from your home. This is the least I could do. After basically kidnapping him the least she could do would be to give him a place that he could actually be comfortable in while he healed. Besides, you're not as much of an inconvenience as Mika. At least I don't have to teach you how to use the litter box or have to worry about you tearing up my furniture. The kitten looked up at her as if she knew she was being talked about and gave off what might have been an innocent mew. Sera wasn't buying it for a moment though and knew that as soon as her back was turned she would find little bite marks on the grandfather clock she had in the living room. Well we eat fish as well as most other animals. There are also fruits, vegetables, breads and all sorts of other things. Sera decided it would be best to leave out some facts that there were humans around the world that even ate cats or other strange things. For some reason she didn't think that would go over well and then she'd have to try and spend hours trying to explain it to him. Red round thing from a tree? Her green eyes shifted over to his as she rattled her mind and tried to think up what he was talking about. A small grin spread on her face as she suddenly had a eureka moment before putting down Mika and bolting down the stairs and into the kitchen. After a few minutes she was back upstairs with something clutched in her hand. I think this is what you're talking about. Sera said as she held the red fruit out to him. We call it in apple. Go ahead and try it, it's pretty sweet. The girl handed him the apple and waited for him to take a bite and say what he thought. Never before did she think she'd actually be this excited about someone eating an apple.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

While there was some sense of fear of what would happen to him, if he could ever go home there was mostly, at the moment, a deep sense of fascination with absolutely everything! He wanted to see outside, what human cities were like. Enhar had hard they were huge. Undersea cities were small, only places where his people's clans liked to meet for exchanging of information, for marriages and festivals, and where elders lived. They tended to be only places for teaching what one's clan couldn't, with a few dwellings. No, it was my own fault, he said, blushing... green? It could have been anyone's net, and she might have been watching on the news a story about a bizarre discovery instead. He was a little embarrassed for at his own incompetence. He should really have carried a knife, and just cut the nets, instead of trying to tear them. Most of his injuries were self-caused... Where fibres of the nets had cut in deep and torn through his skin. Enhar found it very difficult to believe that the little fluffy thing cat, he had to keep reminding himself could possibly be the vanguard of destruction that Sera seemed to imply. He gave Mika a puzzled look. But he was not given too much time to think about it, because Sera was answering his question about food. Breads? What were those? Very curious. He would have to ask later. While he was waiting for Sera to return, the kitten began to groom itself. His assumption was that Mika wanted to be clean, so, naturally, he poured some water on her. He got a hiss and the kitten running up onto a laundry for his effort. His expression was probably priceless, and completely shocked. He leaned forward to look at the thing Sera was offering him, but the bath was slippery underneath, and Enhar slid back down with an awkward splash. He blushed again, probably even brighter this time, before accepting the fruit. Apple? he said, wondering if he was saying it right. He studied it for a little first, at the pattern the colours were close up, at the smell it had, and only then bit into it. His teeth were an odd shape for it, so he chewed slowly, but with a rather amazed expression. Sweet and crisp and a note of sourness. It was better than he'd thought it would be, but also a little harder. It took him a while to get through a bite. It's very tasty! He wanted to try more of her food now. She could probably have hours of fun feeding him things and watching his reactions. When your people's ships used to sink all the time, we used to get your people's food, he told Sera. But very rarely now. He had to take a little more bites, unable to decide whether or not he liked the skin of the thing. The whitish inside was definitely very nice, a little crunchy. He caught the juice with his tongue, so it didn't drip onto the floor.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

Sera had to giggle when she actually saw him blush and turn green. The only time she'd ever seen someone's face turn that color was when they were sick but it was funny on him. The girl couldn't believe just how amazed he was with the solitary apple though she supposed that if she lived under the sea with only fish to eat she'd be amazed too. Yeah, I guess the ships we have today would be a lot harder to sink then the older ones. With all the mega yachts they had these days she couldn't remember the last time she had heard of someone's ship actually going down. Well, I have a lot of food in the house if you want to try some. It's a shame I can't take you to a grocery store but I think people might be a bit thrown off by the fin. While the whole image of a merman being carted around in a grocery store was pretty hysterical she really didn't want to think of what would happen when people realized the fin wasn't just part of some costume. Looking down on the ground she could see that the floor had been splashed some more and Mika was currently sitting on top of the laundry hamper with a very pissed off look on her face. No doubt Enhar had splashed the kitten a bit and she didn't take to it very well. Well, what did she think would happen if she hung around a merman? Moving foreword she leaned her hands on the tub to get a closer look at the man. From his chewing she could see that his teeth were shaped differently then a normal humans probably coming from a vastly different diet. It wasn't like he could really build a fire under water so she had to guess that most of his diet consisted of fish and the random seaweed here and there. Sure sushi was the extent of her raw fish diet but she'd much rather have a steak then munch on bass all day long. Even just sitting there she had the urge to touch his scales and see just what he felt like. She'd held the tail earlier when she had brought him in the house but it would be different when he was actually awake. Hey, um....would you mind if I touched your scales? It was like a little kid who saw a new puppy in the window and just wanted to play with them a bit. Enhar was the strangest thing she had seen in a long time and she really couldn't resist the urge to poke at his skin or see what his hair was like now that it was drying.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

He blushed even deeper when she laughed at him, and if there was enough water, he'd have hidden under it. If he was in the sea, and she was one of his clan's women, he'd have tried to hide under a rock, probably. Grocery store? Enhar asked. If you wanted to eat, you had to hunt it or gather it yourself. They did have some places where they cultivated underwater plants, but without a concept of money, he couldn't quite grasp the concept of a shop. He always thought that humans just found gold and silver and that weird paper money they used now particularly pretty, not that it was actually used for things. He crunched the apple quite happily for a bit, eating even the core until just the stalk was left, and he seemed a little confused as to what to do with before placing it on the side of the bath. That bit didn't seem edible. Curious. Ah. He seemed a little bit confused at her request, as if surprised that someone might be so... Forward. There were far fewer merfolk than humans, and they tended to maintain more personal space. But still. She had saved his life, and he was in her dwelling... Of course, Enhar finally said, very politely, changing position for her, lifting the fin out of the water and placing it on the edge of the bath. This is awkward. I have never spoken to a human before, even though... I, ah... I might be what your people call a siren. Sailors felt so gay whenever they were sang overboard by a male, probably. Enhar had always been a little shy to actually do it, and lacked the will to actually drown people afterwards. There were clans with a taste for human flesh, but he was not one of them. If it was sentient, it wasn't food.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

Yeah, it's a place we go to get our food or other things. We don't really do much hunting or gathering so we buy it at a store. It was so much harder to explain everything to him instead of just show him. Depending on how well he could be out of water she might be able to get him in her car and take him around the city for a bit. At least that way they could hide the tail and he'd still be able to see some of the sights. It had been a while since she'd had some friends from out of town come over and she was excited by the idea of showing him around the city. He acted like an amazed little kid with even the smallest things so she couldn't wait to see what he would think of downtown. Well, at least it looked like he realized that the core wasn't edible. She probably should have warned him about that but he had figured it out himself. Hesitantly, she reached out her hand and brushed it gently against his fin. Sera wasn't sure just how much feeling he had in it so she didn't want to cause him any pain. It felt almost like a fish's fin and her hands slipped over the wet scales. There were obviously strong muscles under there which allowed him to move under water and she could feel them under. Wow, it's so different from legs. It's....kind of slippery. Her mind couldn't exactly process just what her hands were touching so she was having a hard time putting it into words. Still, a small giggle escaped her as she gingerly ran up the fin. Wait a minute, did you just say you were a siren? She turned her head to him with surprise. For some reason she got a mental image of Enhar in a sea-shell bra on top of a rock luring sailors to their doom. Well, with the long hair and if you were a half drunk sailor he might be able to pass for a girl in the fog. He didn't really seem like the type who would go out of his way just to kill people considering he was blushing like crazy just by having her near him. No, it didn't seem like Enhar had much experience with humans so she doubted he had been the cause of any deaths.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

He folded his arms on the edge of the bath and rested his chin on top of them, puzzled and lost at what he was being told about the human world. It was all seeming so terribly complicated... Far much more so than he'd ever imagined. So long as she didn't try poking his gills, Enhar didn't mind her touching him. Poking a merperson in the gills was very much like sticking something up a human's nose weird and slightly disgusting. The way Sera touched his fin, while odd, was not uncomfortable. Her hands were very warm. Strange! He smiled a little at her laugh, unsure of what it meant. It tickled a little as she ran her hand the wrong way up his scales and his tail twitched. What are legs like? he asked. No doubt Enhar had been a horrifically annoying child, probably swimming off all the time and asking complicated questions about everything. He still wasn't that far off from being a child still very young, by his clan's count, not even old enough to have seriously thought about courting a wife. Yes. Considering her surprised look, he realised that the thing he'd been told about humans was right. They all tended to think merpeople were all female . How would that even work ? It's an... Inherited thing. He scratched behind one of his slightly pointed ears. I haven't even ever done it, you know. Some of my friends used to do it for laughs, you know, lure swimmers to little uninhabited islands, and then the humans wouldn't even know how they got there... Another thing he was embarrassed about. Perhaps that was the siren equivalent of stealing traffic cones while drunk. Is it true humans think we're all female? To him, it was a little like thinking that the earth was flat.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

She looked up from what she was doing and tried to think up an answer to his question. Legs? Stretching her own legs out in front of her she wasn't sure just how to explain them to him. Well, they're soft but hard under the skin because of the bone. I guess they're kind of like having two tails expect we have toes at the end. Her explanation was half-assed at best but she honestly couldn't think of how else to tell him about them. They were something she was born with and something she just took for granted as to what they did. Sure in school they had learned just how muscles and bones functioned to be able to move but she didn't think that was the answer he was looking for. Just imagine your arms except longer and on your bottom instead of on your torso. What about your tail? What's that like? Sera herself had always been curious as a child and that had sometimes landed her in more trouble then she'd like to think of. Still, it wasn't like she often had the chance to ask a merman about his body so she might as well take the chance while she still had it. So it's kind of a skill passed down from generation to generation? Funny, she hadn't thought of it that way but she supposed it made the most sense if it was something that was inherited. You'd lure swimmers to uninhabited islands for fun? She felt a bit of annoyance at that but it wasn't like she could really fault Enhar or his friends for doing something like that. Hell, she'd done some pretty stupid things with her friends when she was younger and this past weekend they had broken into an old warehouse just for fun. Apparently it didn't matter what the species was, kids would always be stupid and look for trouble wherever they could. Kind of. In all of our media we always learn about mer maids so everyone just kind of assumes that they're all female. I guess there's supposed to be something romantic about the idea of a big, strong sailor falling in love with some beautiful fish woman. Personally she had always believed in the theory that some drunk and horny soldiers had seen some dolphins in the water and wanted to feel better about it so they imagined they were part women.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

Hrrm, he vaguely replied to her explanation of legs. It could not at all be like a tail. Legs seemed to have only a few specific folds, while his tail was far more flexible, and very powerful. It seemed that his hipbones were not at all like a human's, and that below waist his bone structure was more like a dolphin's. Enhar was just a little surprised that she hadn't taken the time to look while he was out. You can touch, see? Enhar placed her hand so that she could feel how the muscles moved when he flexed his tail. I do not know what these things are called in your language... he said, regarding the more exact explanations of anatomy. Well, they would no doubt have plenty of time to stare at each other while he recovered. Yes, he said, regarding singing. A skill. A very useful skill, now that humans wanted to know everything about their world. Some of the elders use the song to make people forget about us... To think they have seen nothing. Or if they cannot do that, to drive the human insane. It was agreed on, a long time ago, at one of the Clan Meets, he told her, hoping that he was using terms that she knew. So that would be why every so often there was some crazy who said they'd seen something half-fish half-human, and why most people never believed them. The clans did not have many laws, but those that they did were rarely broken. Enhar certainly wasn't planning to lure her to her doom in the bathtub. Enhar had to laugh at the idea of a big strong sailor falling in love with a mermaid. It happened sometimes, but very rarely. And every single time he'd heard about it, it ended with the human drowning. He wasn't cruel, he was just realistic. How was such a union ever to work anyway? I would like to hear some of those stories, he said, assuming in what was a probably silly way, that like their kind, humans told stories to each other. Since the sea wiped away most writing, their history was a spoken one.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

Her hands felt the muscles under the scales as he flexed his tail and she let out a little sigh wondering just how far the differences went. Apparently legs and tails weren't as similar as she had thought in the first place. They're muscles, at least I think they are. Strange, you can pretty much bend your tail wherever but our legs can only bend at the knee and ankle. Stretching out her own leg she pointed to what she was talking about. Well if someone really wanted to keep themselves hidden then using what talents they had to erase people's memories would probably be the best way to go. Er... you promise not to drive me insane? I'd kind of like to keep whatever sanity I have left. Sera giggled nervously and while it seemed like the merman was pretty harmless she wasn't quite sure just how much she could trust him. After all, they'd only been talking for about an hour and humans had no qualms about lying to people's faces so why should a merman? See, now that I can help with. Grinning, she pushed herself up off her spot and headed out the bathroom towards her bedroom. She knew she had that dvd lying around here somewhere. After searching through the messy shelves near the TV and looking under the bed she finally managed to find the disc in question. Picking up her portable DVD player she inserted the disc before bringing it back to where Enhar was. Pushing the play button the screen was filled with colorful images of a fairy creating a castle before it cut to the main page. This is the most famous story we have about mermaids. Mermaid princess falls in love with a human prince and proceeds to act really stupid just to get a man she's never even spoken to. Lifting the screen so he could get a better look she placed it up on the edge of the tub. Never in her wildest dreams would the woman ever have thought she would be showing the Little Mermaid to an actual merman. Funny how life decided to throw all sorts of twists at you.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

Er, I promise? The fact that he was too shy to sing whenever anyone was looking at him or when they started looking at him he made an awkward 'eeep' sound and shut up didn't make it exactly a difficult promise to make. Sera still seemed nervous, so he added, On my honour. Huh! He stared at the DVD player with utter fascination. Pictures. Moving. Is this magic..? he asked vaguely, poking it. For a while he was unable to take in what was going in on screen at all, staring at the machine. It was probably good that he didn't try to touch it, too shocked by it, since water probably wouldn't have helped. The only electricity Enhar was used to seeing was lightning. How does it-? Enhar shook his head a little, choosing to forgo the explanation for now, finally starting to pay attention to what was actually happening on screen. He began to giggle when he realised that all the mermaids wore sea-shell bras. And that the palace was made of gold. And that they all had lovely hairdos. And the king had a beard his people did not grow facial hair. Why are your people obsessed with seashells? he asked, quite unable to stop staring at Ariel's chest. It certainly wasn't the breasts that fascinated him, but the things covering them. Why would it be needed? He could, at least, see that it was a children's story, and even his people's myths had talking animals and evil witches. He could accept Sebastian and Flounder more easily than Triton's beard. He couldn't do anything but snigger each time he saw it, trying to stifle his merriment with a hand. It was certainly an incredibly romanticised version of an underwater world, by someone who had never seen such things. Why do humans wear clothes anyway? Are you always cold? Enhar had never worn anything except a bit of jewellery when he wanted to look a bit better for important ceremonies. We don't have such things. Sometimes we weave rope and cloth from sea plants, but it's only for decoration. We don't cover ourselves up like that... He looked both amused and confused at the same time, and it was a very awkward expression for his face to hold.
Thread: Fish out of Water  [ Missed & Dev ]

No, not magic. Just technology. Sera was very grateful that he had been distracted before he had the chance to ask her just how the DVD player really worked. The girl wasn't always on friendly terms with technology and considered it a good day when the toaster didn't catch on fire. Actually explaining to a merman just how a DVD player worked would have been an exercise in futility leaving the both of them incredibly confused and frustrated. It was funny watching Enhar become so fascinated with the pictures on the screen. He was like a little kid who was watching the movie for the first time while giggling and staring intently at the screen like he was in his own little world. It kind of made her wonder just what his people did when they were bored or if they wanted to pass the time. Not like they could just sit down and watch a movie or even really read a book. Huh? We're not obsessed with seashells... Confusion was evident on her face as she tried to figure out just what he was talking about. Then after a few seconds realization dawned on her as she realized he was talking about the seashells Ariel was wearing as a bra. Wait a minute, does that mean even your females just swim around naked? The girl groaned slightly as her mind was flooded with images of mermaids swimming around with everything out in the open. Couldn't that lead to a lot of really awkward situations for all involved? No, it's not because we're always cold. Well, not completely anyway. The weather up on land changes constantly and we have to protect ourselves from the cold, the rain, snow and all other sorts of things that could lead to us getting sick. She figured that the weather under the sea didn't really change from being wet. Sure it got colder depending how deep you went but it wasn't like they had to bundle up in a blizzard or something. Up here we don't really like seeing people naked out in the open, it's not modest. Not to mention there are a lot of people who really shouldn't be naked. Sera tried to suppress a shudder that went down her spine as she thought of the nude beach that was just ten miles away. It always seemed like the people who really didn't have any business being naked were the ones who chose to do so. Clothes are also a way for us to fit in with different groups or show where we belong in the world. There was no way she was going to get into a discussion with him about fashion and how it showed which groups or which part of society you belonged to. Maybe he'd just get distracted by the pretty colors and she'd get off easy.