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video [ un: daughter-sea ]
[ The woman that appears is a - level expression, a little happy or sad that plays on her features. Level, most especially, as she clears her throat. Her veil tied around her head to tame her curls back, her shift and vest tying herself up neatly.
Peeking out from her veil is her lamp friend, and drifting around her in a circle is a soft finned creature, her Omen. Delicately colored in reds and blues as it swims in the air. ]
I find myself remiss, in how to make an introduction...
... I am Second-Child, Gilia St. Loe, Daughter-Sea, She Who Sings the Ocean to Prosperity, Who Echoes With the Ceaseless Voice.
[ That out of the way. ]
I am new to this place, this... city. I do not have much in the way of the coin, but I am skilled in other forms. I can sew, weave, till a field, clean, cast a line, or a net, gut a fish, help tend animals, both with birthing and killing, cook many types of meals...
But if you have need of anything repaired or cooked... please, if there is something I can do for resources in return, only let me know, and I shall be your glad servant.
Peeking out from her veil is her lamp friend, and drifting around her in a circle is a soft finned creature, her Omen. Delicately colored in reds and blues as it swims in the air. ]
I find myself remiss, in how to make an introduction...
... I am Second-Child, Gilia St. Loe, Daughter-Sea, She Who Sings the Ocean to Prosperity, Who Echoes With the Ceaseless Voice.
[ That out of the way. ]
I am new to this place, this... city. I do not have much in the way of the coin, but I am skilled in other forms. I can sew, weave, till a field, clean, cast a line, or a net, gut a fish, help tend animals, both with birthing and killing, cook many types of meals...
But if you have need of anything repaired or cooked... please, if there is something I can do for resources in return, only let me know, and I shall be your glad servant.
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I did not. [ She can flicker a brief smile, in that memory at least. ] I was a whisper for a week. But that is what it is to be Singer, it is a great responsibility.
[ If only that is all it had stayed. .]
But I speak too long on myself. Tell me, how do you find this place? Does it treat you well?
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[ better than all right. for someone who has spent over five centuries running and never quite settling roots, deerington and the trench have treated her well. she sometimes thinks she has a very kind view of it in comparison to everyone else. ]
It's⦠[ she pauses for a moment. vulnerability is still not her strong suit. but what does she have to lose if she tells the truth? ] My opinion might differ from a lot of other people's, but I like it here. It's annoying at times, but it's become home. [ she shrugs; she adds genuinely but playfully: ] And it has nice shoes.
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[ She can smile to that, mild as it is. ]
I found it hard to leave the sea, to take this form again but... at least, if someone can find home here, perhaps I can too.
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[ she can only shrug. it's the best advice a wise old very jaded person like katherine can give. ]
I've travelled to a lot of places in my life. Nothing becomes home or palatable unless you make it. I refused to make a home, no matter where I was. If anyone's going to give you advice on how to exist here, only listen to those who tell you to trust your gut.
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[It's a bitter thing that slips before she means it, and she fixes her face back to bland indifference a moment later. Gone again as quick as it appeared.]
Then I shall take your advice dearly, it is a precious gift as I have ever been given. Thank you.
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[ despite being tempted to roll her eyes, katherine only looks bemused. what you get is what you give... or something like that. she hardly listens to the things people say when they're trying to teach her some boring lesson. ]
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[ It's dreadful because she was a person again, not a perfect and divine squid, which there can be no higher form. To be back in her body is an unending misery as far as she is concerned. ]
But for that pain, I think anywhere should be misery to me. Here, I am simply resolved to be as I must and is best for everyone.
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Not what's best for you?
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No, no it is not. But please, I shall adjust in any case.
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[ katherine doesn't, hence her happiness to be here. she also has a nice shoe collection that's big than the one she has at home. ]
It's not uncommon to feel that way. A lot of people do.
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[ She swallows down as hard as she can to stop it. ]
It was being taken from the sea that grieves me so. Coming back to this mortal form, when I was something so divine, so holy, as a creature of the sea itself.
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Why can't you still be that?
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