Who likes short shorts?

[bonkuralead]

Characters: Tomo and YOU!
Setting/Location: A small way away from The Caravan, near the Oregon River.
Date & Time: Day 4; Noon
Warnings: Will be updated depending on content. Probably nothing much.
Summary: Tomo presents various crackpot theories as to how they're supposed to get across this thing. It's almost as if she doesn't know what she's

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[bonkuralead]

In complete contrast, Tomo is completely average. She's only been on a plane once and a beach nearly every summer of high school. She has no knowledge of the river, the things inside it, or the plants around it. The girl knows not of currents and the like because she either never paid attention when they were explained, or she just never cared enough to find out for herself. Overall she is clueless, and now surprised.

"H-uh," She remarked, staring at the man, "I didn't think anyone would come out here 'cause of what that guy said." She grins and it's almost catlike in nature, "Guess I was wrong." She shrugs and looks back towards the river, then back at him with an incredulous look.

"I wasn't going to jump in! I don't even have anything to swim in. This river's probably too deep anyway, and I think one of the bigger fish it trying to eat my toes or something. Little freak." She stares straight at him for most of the statement, ending it with a large inhale and a glower at the water. A medium-sized salmon swims around her feet, the picture of innocence.

[menkheperatum]

"So you say and yet here you are." After all, he couldn't care less about what that guy said considering his behavior from the very begining. Neither is the pharaoh prone to letting sentiments like fear and self preservation get in the way of his caprices and he supposes this girl lives her life on similar whims.

He takes a seat on a rock situated almost in the river itself, letting his feet dangle off it, idly stirring up the water. His attention is drawn by the fish Tomo mentions; he can't make it out clearly at this angle but metallic hues flash briefly from below the surfaces. If he sits still enough others like it draw near and he smiles. Fishing was a past time he quite enjoyed back home but that did not mean he failed to appreciate all nature around him.

"You are probably right about the depth, and that is to say nothing of the width. As for that little guy, if he intended to make a meal of your toes I believe he would have attempted it by now."

[bonkuralead]

"Yeah well... Staying in that thing all the time would be so boring and this is the first time it's stopped. So there." She curls her hands into fists and puts them on her hips to seem more standoffish, only to drop the pose moments later in order to slosh her way to the shore. Most everything moves out of her way, though she tries not to step on anything. Stepping on something slimy, in this river and barefoot, would be disgusting to her.

After she gets to shore, she plops down on the ground a small way away from the rock he is sitting on. "I got tired of standing up," She says, "and I'm used to being right when I say things. So I'm pretty sure it was trying to eat my toes. It nibbled on them a few times. It was tasting me." She looks back at the river and then back at him.

"How do you know it's a he?" She inquires this before jumping to a more interesting conclusion. "Can you talk to fish?!" She seems excited by this prospect.

[menkheperatum]

Atem just stares at her incredulously. Exactly where does one get such an idea? Strange worlds and inhuman superpowers aside, he's pretty sure one's train of thought just shouldn't work like that. Then again, it's pretty clear that Tomo is fairly independent and has her own way of doing things. Turning to face her properly, a faint smirk lights up his expression as he considers it.

"And what if I can? Does that help you at all? Exactly what were you doing out there if not trying to find a way across?" Of course, it's not like he was doing any different but then he's often oblivious to such minor details.

Not to mention he looks nothing like Aquaman. Needs moar orange.

[bonkuralead]

Tomo's logic has no sort of linear pattern. It doesn't even reach the level where it has a pattern. All it does is jump around, going from one subject to the next based on whatever she finds it interesting.

"Does it help me?" She mulls the question over in her head for a bit. "Well I'd know whether or not that fish was plotting against me so... I'm gonna go with yes!"

She mistakes his other question for something of an interrogative one and throws her hands up in defense, pulling an extempore awkward face. "I wasn't doing anything! Actually I was standing in water. And that's it!" Afterward, she crosses her arms and just nods.

Lol maybe she should do something about that

[menkheperatum]

Whatever does go through her head, it takes Atem another moment to process. She... she really believes that. It's sort of cute actually. And it's also pretty amusing which he expresses with a lighthearted laugh. "Well then I am sorry that I cannot be of service to you but should it indeed turn against you, I can help you suppress the vile thing."

The laughter subsiding, he tilts his head slightly and smirk. "You sound rather insistent. Perhaps a little too insistent. I wonder..." Of course he believes whatever she was doing was probably perfectly innocent. How much trouble can one person get in after only a few days here right? Okay perhaps a whole lot judging by some of the messages relayed over the Junogam but still.

Did someone say village shopping? 'Cause I heard village shopping~

[bonkuralead]

"See, that's the kinda response I was looking for!" She pumps a fist in the air and gives him a grin before calming down and dusting some nonexistent dirt off her shoulders. "Not to say I couldn't handle it on my own. Because I could. Really."

"I'm only insisting because you're insisting, ya know. I'm not really doing anything." She is so nonchalant about this, which really doesn't help her case. Still, there isn't much to do in the Caravan or out here, so she's settled with just exploring when she can and leaving it all at that.

I believe you definitely heard village shopping :|

[menkheperatum]

Shaking his head, the young pharaoh smiles again. He's apt to believe her, that she can take care of herself with or without any kind of special abilities. That mouth and personality are probably a power all their own. He hops down from his perch, into the shallow water that just covers his ankles and watches how the current pools and passes around them. It's quicker than it looks but not dangerously so.

"Perhaps you were not doing anything but I was out here by myself, to see what the river might tell me." He admits, looking up to the far shore then back at her with another grin. "Have you yourself given any thought as to how to cross it as of yet? Or does that not matter..."

:DDDDDDDDDDD YESSSSSS

[bonkuralead]

"How we might cross it?" She thinks for a moment, which is quite a feat for her as she's used to just jumping into things. She doesn't really know anything about the situation other than the fact that there is a river and it needs to be crossed. She doesn't know how deep it is, how strong it is, of if there's anything in it more dangerous than salmon.

"Well if it isn't that deep then we can just have the giant walk across. Or maybe look for a bridge or something." Except she hasn't seen a bridge at all, so she guesses walking across is their only option. Still, Grandore is pretty big so she doubts anything bad could occur from it.