Sah'ot was diving for his supper, a grey streak, secretly enjoying the feel of hunting as his ancestors did. Steno Bredanensis dared to dive deep and since Sah'ot had gene grafts from that species, so did Sah'ot. He came up from his dive with a wiggling bony fish held in his jaws by the tail. He came to the metal edge of the habitat and snapped his head down, smashing it against the lip. Stunned and bleeding, it drifted, awaiting only extraction from its hard shell.
That's when he noticed the newcomer. He had grey skin like Tavros or a Fay'lia. He sprayed Eridan with some inquisitive sonar clicks.
Sah'ot surfaces right as he's about to dive in, and in his slightly panicked attempt to get at his weapon, he ends up failing at anything resembling dignity entirely and falls into the water with a loud splash. The sonar clicks go unnoticed entirely; he's not really equipped to notice them. However, he is going to stay under the surface for a bit, cautiously watching above him to determine his next course of action.
The creature does, in a way, remind Eridan of a lusus, so perhaps this might not end poorly.
Sah'ot bobbed up, snickering at Eridan's ungraceful tomble. It was in a dolphin's nature to laugh at anything even remotely funny, and a proud seatroll bellyflopping was certainly that. He readied a little greeting in Trinary.
*For fellow swimmers/meal can be shared/if the shell can be cracked/like a barrier/to conversation*
Alas, that he can't speak any language he's certain the dolphin could understand underwater, since he's not at all familiar with the translation device or how to change the language it's set to... if that's even possible. So he surfaces, staring curiously at the creature for a moment. "You're willin' to share that with me?"
The idea of real food and not some brick or weird dreamed up combination is almost enough to make him drool, but he has some dignity left.
He snorts quietly at that, because it is pretty amusing to see a dolphinlusus try to nod. "What is this thin' anyway?" He's not ever seen a fish quite like this, with a hard shell and everything, at least not on Alternia. He swims over, eyeing the carcass with some interest. That smash did a pretty good job of cracking it open, at any rate, if the blood diffusing into the water means anything. It takes him a moment to find the breaks in the shell, but when he does, he digs his fingers in and pulls hard, breaking off a chunk of the carapace.
"Sssome sort of bony fish, lik-ke nothing i've ever eaten before." Sah'ot said helping by pulling off chunks wherever he could. His walker was up there on the shore, and he could have gotten into it and used the waldo arms, but that would require a laborious wriggling into it. Too annoying.
In fact it was a Devonian period fish, Materpiscis. But Sah'ot didn't know that, being trained in linguistics and not paleonotology.
That's when he noticed the newcomer. He had grey skin like Tavros or a Fay'lia. He sprayed Eridan with some inquisitive sonar clicks.
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The creature does, in a way, remind Eridan of a lusus, so perhaps this might not end poorly.
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*For fellow swimmers/meal can be shared/if the shell can be cracked/like a barrier/to conversation*
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The idea of real food and not some brick or weird dreamed up combination is almost enough to make him drool, but he has some dignity left.
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"If you c-come here in peace and can help me get this thing's shell open, sssure!"
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In fact it was a Devonian period fish, Materpiscis. But Sah'ot didn't know that, being trained in linguistics and not paleonotology.
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