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[truerevival]

[Kazuma is obviously in the Archives. The looming shelves, claustrophobic framing, and dim lighting is more than enough to give that away. There are open tomes around him, but he isn't reading any of them; instead, he's considering the camera with a quizzical look, chin in his hand as he leans on the table he's at.]

Before the patrons of this place decide to plague us with more of the same, I have a mundane question for all of you.

We have many places we can choose to make our homes here. I am currently in Crenshaw, previously in Willful Machine...I moved with someone I know well. The point being, there are reasons we choose these places, correct?

What drew you to yours? What merits does it have to have others consider it? Is it because of people you know, or something else?

[He sighs and drums his fingers on the tabletop.] I just never really gave my own lodging much thought...I am wondering if most of us settle where it is convenient, or if we find other reasons to gravitate to where we end up.

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[truerevival]

[Kazuma is from a place that is as far from fantastical as most anything you can get. But Trench has had him considering and encountering the impossible at every turn. So he doesn't look surprised, mostly curious.]

So that would make the sea...something more akin to home for you, then?

[And he didn't miss the look he was given either, so it's all said with a friendly, open smile.]

[schoolingfish]

[Luca relaxes when he sees the friendly, open response.]

Yeah. I lived in the sea for thirteen years.

[Which by the looks of Luca, is very clearly most of his life.]

But I like living on land and learning about it. And there aren't any other sea folk here, so staying in the water without anyone living there would get lonely, anyway.

[truerevival]

That's adventurous of you, to leave what you know behind.

[He knows the feeling, even if he hadn't made the move until he was well into his twenties. Still he can appreciate the attitude.]

The world has a lot to offer. Though...I'm sure the same could be said for the sea.

[schoolingfish]

Oh, yeah. When I first came to land I was terrified, but everything worked out okay in the end!

I mean, the sea can be kind of boring. You wake up, help out on the farm, herd fish every day...but land has so many animals and flowers and things I never saw or heard of before! And there's so much to learn about and do! It's pretty exciting.

[truerevival]

Change, going someone unknown...that can always be terrifying, even when it leads to something better.

...There are farms in the sea? [Still learning every day!] You have things to learn about the land. That's exiciting on its own. The sea probably has just as many things that I've never seen. There are depths we've never reached in the sea where I'm from.

[schoolingfish]

Yeah! We raise fish and crabs and grow seaweed!

There aren't really any depths we can't go to, but our bodies change to adapt if we go too deep.

[truerevival]

That...is something I would have very much liked to see. [Boring as it may have been for the day-to-day, it's something unknown to him and thus is a bit of a novelty.]

Something of the environment having an effect? I remember hearing that there is more pressure as one goes deeper into the sea.

[schoolingfish]

Yeah, the deeper you go, the more pressure. You'd also have to be careful coming back, because if you come up too quickly without giving your body time to adapt it could be dangerous.

[truerevival]

Have you ever been? To the deep, I mean. To know that much means it's either a frequent warning or you have some experience yourself.

[schoolingfish]

No. I almost got sent there once, but I ran away. My uncle told me what was down there, though.