action & prose; open; ☀/☾

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Who: Aqua; OPEN.
What: After exploring the city and dealing with some major frustration, Aqua finds herself at the beach at the end of a very, very, very disappointing third day in the City of Dreams. She's been at this constantly. Hasn't even returned to the house yet.
Where: Some quieter section of the beach.
When: Late in the day,

Comments

*___*! /clings them both.

[keystorm]

Admittedly, the sight of an enormous, unidentified winged beast caught Aqua's attention before the comparatively unassuming young lady had. In fact, it had given her quite a start from a distance; It wasn't surprising that the thought crossed her mind that it might have been preparing to actually attack the masked girl whom it was following, but ...

... It didn't take very long at all to put that assumption away. She was by no means particularly biased toward or well-taught in the mannerisms of fauna, but it became relatively obvious that its gestures were nonaggressive.

Though it did become progressively more difficult to remain calm as the imposing animal (and the girl Aqua was coming to suspect was its keeper) drew closer, she did manage to do what she could to appear just as neutral as possible. By the time she was formally approached, she was composed... and receptive to kindness.

Not that she wasn't ... staring rather pointedly elsewhere, she turned to face the visitor and offered a smile herself -- one not unlike the brunette's. Uncertain, well-meaning.

"I'm... I'm fine."

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Taking in a deep breath (that was probably just a little more obvious than she anticipated it would be), and sparing one more moment to gawk openly at... Valefor, she nodded and dragged her gaze back to Yuna.

Sort of an odd thought struck her, and without warning. The two were... oddly alike, weren't they? Not in appearance, obviously, but once that initial wave of panic had passed on... there was a similar, sad sort of light that they had in common. She almost felt as though she was intruding to take note of it... and immediately shook it off. Old habits.

As it seemed... a bit insincere to greet someone for the first time from behind a mask, Aqua scanned the horizons of the beach momentarily -- empty, it would seem -- before carefully slipping her mask off, tucking it under an arm.

"Yuna... Valefor. It's nice to meet you both. Just... sorry it had to be under these circumstances."

She seemed to hesitate for a moment, watching Yuna's motions carefully as she stroked the creature. One had to wonder what Valefor was like in a foul mood.

"I'm Aqua. ... Um. May I?" From a childish standpoint, petting a new animal was almost irresistible. But she wouldn't act on impulse... not without the final go-ahead from its handler.