Some kitties enjoy water!

[saleskitten]

Characters: Kitty saleskitten and Sight shouldve_didnt
Date/Time: July 28, afternoon.
Location: The State Aquarium and BEYOND!
Rating: PG.
Summary: The auctioneer herself won a date, and they decide on some fun at the State Aquarium. Unlike with Fugue, there are significantly less tentacles.

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[shouldve_didnt]

The State Aquarium--it was a place that Sight hadn't had the opportunity to visit just yet, and perhaps it was the perfect setting for a date. He figured it would be something light and casual. Why not? Kitty was a sweet kid, and he never really minded visiting her at her shop in the marketplace.

Something in the back of his mind was telling him that previous dates of his were never quite this casual, but he figured that since he didn't even recall them, there wasn't much to worry about. Well, there was also this weird pang of guilt, too, but otherwise... it wasn't so bad. The loss of memories in Edensphere was apparently good for something, even though there was always the chance that he'd eventually recall and regret any decisions he made. Then again, that stood for just about anyone in the 'sphere.

Darn it, he was thinking too hard. Shaking himself back to his senses, the masked man swam his way over to the island. He'd never seen anything like that before, but it looked like someone had taken everything that should live underwater and tossed it all into a huge, misshapen glass jar of sorts. Sight could see how that could prove rather interesting... It was a good choice for a date.

Quietly, he floated somewhere behind the girl, eventually greeting her with a friendly, "Yo!" like he always would when dropping by in the marketplace. For all that it might surprise her, Sight hoped that this would go by as friendly and casually as any normal day that he'd meet up with her.

[saleskitten]

She was used to Edensphere being strange. It didn't mean that the new sights and sounds couldn't surprise or amaze her. Of course, she'd never seen an Aquarium before to the best of her knowledge, and wondered how the fish got in there.

She was paddling her arms a little to reach the ground as close as she could with her feet, and was slightly jarred by the sudden greeting behind her. She recognized the voice; Kitty had been visited at her shop by Sight, and felt she was pretty good at identifying voices.

"Oh, hey Sight!" She greeted, turning her body just enough to let the anti-gravity finish the job, a foot touching to the ground to stop her rotation.

"Really, thanks a lot for helping out Claw. ... And boy did you cooperate when I asked to take a picture." Kitty couldn't help herself, blushing as she laughed a little at that.

[shouldve_didnt]

He couldn't help but rub the back of his head at that. "Maa, well... Couldn't really hurt anyone taking a picture like that, right?" Alright, so Sight knew he was kind of a tease that way, but he never meant it in a bad way, honestly. The mask hid his grin, but it was noticeable by the way there was that crinkle by his eye.

"So, have you ever seen an aquarium before?" he asked, bringing his hand back to rub his chin instead. Sight studied the glass domes for a moment before continuing, "They don't seem particularly familiar to me..."

Anyway, it was gentleman time--they were on a date, regardless of how informal he wanted it to be. He offered his hand. "Floating around out here isn't going to accomplish anything, right? How about we head on in now?"

[saleskitten]

"I've actually never been here before!" She answered, lifting a brow. "I kind of wonder how the fish got in there."

While she mused, a hand was offered. Kitty nodded, reaching out to take it. "I think I've done enough idle floating. Let's check this place out!"

She always enjoyed eating fish. Perhaps it was time she took a moment to observe them in their natural habitat for once! ..Well, if glass domes were natural habitats. She wondered how these islands were discovered, one by one, never noticed beforehand? Who knew what else was waiting out there, ready to be happened upon?

[shouldve_didnt]

"Sounds good to me." It wasn't long before they both had steered themselves into one of the tunnels that led further down so that they were completely surrounded by water. The lighter blue of the water's surface had become a beautiful deep blue; there were colorful fish swimming about and decorating the aquatic backdrop. Rocks, seaweed, reefs... only added to the wondrous and amazing setting. Then, of course, just outside the glass were posted signs indicating, 'Please do not tap the glass.'

Sight himself felt rather impressed and intrigued. "I... kind of wonder how they got all that stuff in there." Because Kitty hadn't been to one before, and now that they were in the passages and able to witness underwater life as natural and undisturbed as possible, he was absolutely positive that he'd never seen something like this before. And he'd have never guessed that an oversized fish tank could be this... beautiful. "And I wonder how they feed it all... or even who feeds them all."

And there was always the idle wonder if this was where the fish were supplied from... unless those were also raised in the farm.

[saleskitten]

She couldn't help but practically press her face into the glass as some very delicate-looking exotic fish swam by, including a sea horse draped in fragile tendrils. While she was behaving in not tapping the glass, they never said anything about practically making a nose print in the stuff.

"This lack of gravity makes this experience pretty cool! It feels like we're floating in the water with the fish, doesn't it?"

It was when a sleek, gray creature much larger than the others zipped past in the water that she jumped a little, the mouth full of teeth on the shark spooking her more than it should: Her pupils had thinned into slits, and she managed to hide her hands behind her back as the nails lengthened into claws.

Kitty shook her head and laughed off her surprise while she settled her nerves, the cat-like features slowly but surely returning to normalcy.

"Sheesh, what was that!?" She'd never seen a shark before.

[shouldve_didnt]

"Ah, it really does seem like--" Then the shark emerged; although he wasn't particularly surprised, it did ping something within him.

The teeth, the gills, the coloration... all seemed extremely familiar to Sight. Like he'd seen a person who'd looked like that once. And while that kind of seemed strange, it also seemed to make perfect sense somewhere inside of him.

"...it's a shark." He replied. "Just... a really big fish with dangerous scales. And if you brush the wrong way against them, they can shred you like a cheese grater." Listening to his description, that sounded terribly familiar. What was it? Had he encountered something like that before?

[ooc: Ping Hoshigaki Kisame.]