video; un: dovahkiin (backdated to early Nov)

[fusrodaaaah]

Um.

[Wow, it's a rare show of video from Melius. The Argonian is sitting on the beach, in the cold, at his little tent. A lizard, in the cold. But he doesn't seem at all bothered by it.]

[He shifts where he sits, and then just. Straight up thrusts a basket of mushrooms at the camera.]

I was - I was um. [He ducks his head, hiding behind the basket.]

I know mushrooms! Really well! I um - if you need! To know! I can - I can tell you!

Goodbye!

[He shuts it off, right there.]

[... basically, Melius is offering his services as a mushroom expert. With a lot more anxious yelling than necessary.]

Comments

[fusrodaaaah]

It... it's really not. That bad. Or hard... um.

Varian does. The things that explode.

1/??

[danserai]

Yeah, he told me not to go into his workshop. Which is fine.

I've just never been good at handling things delicately. It's always —

[danserai]

"Ahiru, did you drop that book? It's supposed to stay on your head"

Or like.

"Ahiru, why are your legs all wobbly? Keep your pose straight"

Or

"Ahiru, how did you run and roll yourself into that bush?"

3/3 END

[danserai]

Just kind of like that, I guess, ehehe . . .

[ because she is, after all, a literal duck and not a person. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

[Please hold. Processing...]





Wh-why did you... have a book. On your head?

[danserai]

Oh, we use them for practice. To make sure we're keeping our balance in ballet.

[fusrodaaaah]

Ballet...?

Is... what is that? [If it exists in Tamriel, the lizard living in the woods unfortunately hasn't heard about it.]

[danserai]

It's a type of dance. We do it on our toes with special shoes that keep us from losing our balance.

But it needs a lot of practice.

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh.

I'm sorry. I um. I haven't... heard of it.

[danserai]

That's okay. There are lots of things I haven't heard about too.

That's why it's nice to be here, right? To learn new things?

[fusrodaaaah]

I... it is?

I um. I thought it was just. What happened after the dream world.

[danserai]

The . . . dream world?

[fusrodaaaah]

Y-yes. Um...

Deerington. Did - did you not... go there?

[danserai]

No. This is the first new place I've ever been in.

[fusrodaaaah]

O-oh. It's um. I'm not... very good at. Explaining.

[Melius has problems talking about things that aren't alchemy, apparently.]

It um. It was - almost like this. But worse.

[danserai]

What . . . happened to it?

[fusrodaaaah]

It um.

We... we woke up. Here. I um. I think it. Fell apart.

[danserai]

Why did it fall apart?

[fusrodaaaah]

I um. I don't... really know.

O-other people might! But... but I don't. I'm sorry.

[danserai]

[ ahiru shakes her head. ]

It's all right. I can ask someone else! But you told me about it so thank you!

[fusrodaaaah]

But I didn't ... tell you anything useful...

[danserai]

But you did.

You told me the last place was a dream and many people came from there to here. That's useful to me.

[fusrodaaaah]

It... it is?

[danserai]

Of course!

And I learned about alchemy too. So that's two new things!

[fusrodaaaah]

Oh.

I can um. I know alchemy. So that's - that's good!