+1 Long Nervous Boi

[pelicanmouth]

There's a stranger in the Plaza, water trailing on the ground behind him as he moves. There's something fishy about this visitor - in the literal sense. He looks around, startled by the bustling When someone accidentally cuts in front of him, he instinctively puffs his head up from fright.

He looks like a long, snakelike fish with a dimly glowing light at the end of his tail. His head is a giant toothless mouth that gapes when he talks. He's trying his best to seem friendly, since he's aware of how unsettling he looks to ocean folk not so familiar with denizens of the deep sea. Let alone land folk - and he's as frightened of humans and other creatures as he's sure they are of him.

Gulper eels aren't meant to be in the light, and he's sure he's the first one to have had the chance to visit - thankful for the special equipment that helps him breathe in the air environment, but this is as alien for him as his home would be to most of the people here.

"Uh." His tail twines in anxiety, almost twisting itself into knots. He asks a question, since that's how things are done here from the sound of things. "Does anybody know where I can find some water?"

Comments

[pelicanmouth]

"You've met other gulper eels?" Leon is curious, getting himself more comfortable in the fountain. "I never met one of your kind before, but there are many sea creatures I've never seen."

He nods, or as close as a creature like him can come to nodding. A gulper eel's mouth looks strange folded up.

"I've never been that far up. We denizens of the deep aren't allowed."

[longfish]

"I have," she says, "thought it's rare to see them in part of the ocean I dwell in. But I go where the Currents call me."

"Why are you not allowed? Is it the danger of the light, or is there some other reason?"

[pelicanmouth]

"I've never seen a fish like you before," the eel says, curious. "What did you think of us?"

The tail-light dims a little. "It's dangerous for our people to go to the surface," Leon explains.