video;

[terribubbly]

[ Guess who had slept through the bubble getting fixed? Well, she's awake now and not entirely pleased with what she woke up to. ]

Oh no, why did you have to go and ruin the bubble? I was having a great glubbing time. And it's not like it was a problem to have it flooded, not when you could all float down here in your silly short blue dresses if you wanted.

You all had to wait until I was taking a little nap under the waves and then POW, you drydocked me!

It's just so rude!

Comments

[video]

[fundemetal]

You got me. Why waste time testing the waters when you can dive right in?

[video]

[terribubbly]

You never know what sharks wait with their jaws wide open.

[video]

[fundemetal]

That's not how I want to swim with the fishes if you catch my drift.

[video]

[terribubbly]

[ She giggles. ]

You're a smart one, then. Some of the people here might be all for it!

[video]

[fundemetal]

Then they can be chummy together. I'll stick to safer waters.

[video]

[terribubbly]

Oh, I like you. We might as well strap some fins on you and dip you in paint, you'd be a perchfect seatroll!

[video]

[fundemetal]

I just call them like I sea them. [He laughs.]

Anyway, I'm Leo.

[video]

[terribubbly]

Leo's a fun name. I'm Feferi Peixes, the abdicated Empress to be of Alternia. You're not dealing with a small fry here.

[video]

[fundemetal]

Thanks. [He is thoroughly impressed.] Sounds like you're the biggest fish in the sea.

Re: [video]

[terribubbly]

No one's bigger. I'm quite the catch to be fronds with!

[video]

[fundemetal]

I'm floundering here a little. Is my sonar on the mark that you want to be friends or is this a red herring in order to lure me to a watery death?

[video]

[terribubbly]

Why not both? Hehe, you can't go belly up for too long down here anyway.

[video]

[fundemetal]

You can't? [This is the first Leo's heard about death in this place.]

[video]

[terribubbly]

You'd be flopping around in the fountain after less than a whole human week, just ask anyone. Besides, you know...

[ She leans in towards her SFC and practically sing-songs the next sentence: ]

Most of us are already dead!

[video]

[fundemetal]

Guess that's good to know. Not that I want to go testing the waters on that one.

[He's a little unnerved by her saying that in that tone of voice, but he does his best not to show it.]

Most of us? I'm pretty sure I'm not already dead.

[video]

[terribubbly]

Maybe you are, or maybe you're not. I shore was!

[video]

[fundemetal]

So this is a second chance at life? Guessing you're pretty happy to be here then.

[video]

[terribubbly]

Second-ish, I guess, and I like it plenty. My boyfriend is here and so are my friends, and we get to do all kinds of dumb stuff.

But, really, I think it's just because the coral doesn't like dead stuff more than an extra chance.

[video]

[fundemetal]

That's cool. I've got a couple of friends from back home here with me. And I've made a few since I got here a couple weeks ago.

[He nods. That seems to make perfect sense given what he knows about the coral.]