Tási is patient, and she watches the knights as Billie speaks, studying their changing faces, before her attention slides back to the woman speaking with her. She looks tired and Billie will begin to feel a heavy weight to her limbs while they speak as well. It is a side effect of the substance the eel she swallowed is secreting.
"The deeper is trying to force its way up from underneath the bones. It can not dig its way out, it can only attempt to free itself by traveling upward. We have been trying to help it, but the deeper's magic has cost the lives of some of my people." Her face dips into a frown and she shakes her head, looking down into the waters toward the skeleton.
"We do not know for sure what will happen when it is free, but its anger has made it deaf to our songs. It will not listen. It is creating storms beneath the sea. We managed to calm it for a little while, to stop it from killing everything that neared these waters. It did not last long and that feat took much of our strength. Now other creatures grow agitated as well and attack the reef. The deeper is calling for them and its anger is spreading. We no longer know what to do."
There's a pause and Tási searches the surface of the waters for the other merfolk, finding most of them have left. She shakes her head in a manner that makes her hair flip heavily, her dark eyes focused on Billie's. There is a sorrowful sounding song behind her words.
"A dolphin does not make friends with gulls. Your cove is not a safe place for us any more than our seas are a safe place for your kind. It took many deaths to convince my people to come away from their home and risk venturing into yours. But I know trust is not common between our kind and yours, so I have brought you an offering in hope it will help you convince others to help us, if you will take it to your people."
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"The deeper is trying to force its way up from underneath the bones. It can not dig its way out, it can only attempt to free itself by traveling upward. We have been trying to help it, but the deeper's magic has cost the lives of some of my people." Her face dips into a frown and she shakes her head, looking down into the waters toward the skeleton.
"We do not know for sure what will happen when it is free, but its anger has made it deaf to our songs. It will not listen. It is creating storms beneath the sea. We managed to calm it for a little while, to stop it from killing everything that neared these waters. It did not last long and that feat took much of our strength. Now other creatures grow agitated as well and attack the reef. The deeper is calling for them and its anger is spreading. We no longer know what to do."
There's a pause and Tási searches the surface of the waters for the other merfolk, finding most of them have left. She shakes her head in a manner that makes her hair flip heavily, her dark eyes focused on Billie's. There is a sorrowful sounding song behind her words.
"A dolphin does not make friends with gulls. Your cove is not a safe place for us any more than our seas are a safe place for your kind. It took many deaths to convince my people to come away from their home and risk venturing into yours. But I know trust is not common between our kind and yours, so I have brought you an offering in hope it will help you convince others to help us, if you will take it to your people."