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[soexcitable]

[Phone]

Hi! I'll be swimming in the park today! I'll try the pool later. It'll be lobsta fun if you can flounder on over there!

I'm thinking about hosting some EXCITING O-FISH-AL swim lessons soon too! Is anyone interested?

[Hi Mayfield. The weeping angels may be gone, but if you're passing through the park, you'll see a stranger sight. There

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[isur2ndprincess]

[Yuki was trying to reacquaint herself with the town and walked over to the park to take a break and maybe have some lunch there when she saw the girl swimming]

Aren't you cold?

[Yuki was getting a bit cold just watching her!]

[soexcitable]

Nope! Not at all! I feel better than I have for a loooong time!

[isur2ndprincess]

Have you swam in colder waters? [Yuki's going to be polite for now and not ask about her appearance]

[soexcitable]

I have! The ocean where I lived before could get very cold.

[isur2ndprincess]

[She really hopes this doesn't sound rude or stupid... but she looks like she has gills!] Did you live in, um, near the ocean?

[soexcitable]

In! That's where my Lusus and I lived, we had an underwater hive and everything!

[isur2ndprincess]

[oh of course, why didn't she think of that]

[have the blankest of faces]

I'm sorry, lusus? Hives under the ocean?

[soexcitable]

You can compare them to your absurd human caregivers and living quarters. Or "mother" and "house" if you prefer.

[isur2ndprincess]

So if you're not calling your lusus mother then is she more of a caregiver? Someone who didn't give birth to you? May I ask what country you're from? Perhaps lusus is a term relative to there that I haven't heard of before. Hive is also a peculiar thing to call a house, it makes me think of bees.

[pause]

Wait, absurb human thing?

[Well that could explain her appearance more but yup, you've broken Yuki]

[soexcitable]

Absurd human thing! You seem to have a lot of them. I don't think trolls and humans work the same way, so I can't explain perch-fectly what a lusus is to you. I don't think you could grasp it!

[isur2ndprincess]

[small smile] Yes, I agree with you there, we do have many absurd things.

I thought trolls lived under bridges. Though I guess bridges could cross oceans... [logic is failing her]

Could you try and explain it? I'm very curious and I think I'm pretty smart.

[soexcitable]

I can try! But it gets preeeeetty confusing!

I'm not the kind of troll you think. I come from a place called Alternia! My friends and I accidentally created the human world, but I can't tell you how- only that we were meant to.

[isur2ndprincess]

Alternia. The base word is alter and you are both from a different planet and created an alternate human world, interesting. [she seems genuinely intrigued.]

[soexcitable]

Oh! It reely is. Would you like to hear more about the Lusus'?

[isur2ndprincess]

Oh yes please.

[soexcitable]

When we're grubs, the few of us that have survived horrible trials are hand-picked by creatures called Lusus. They help raise us and protect us, in exchange for us taking care of them as well.