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[attr="class","nikki109"]Given her recent experiences with the Dream World and MAWS Ylva was taking a school sanctioned break. In spite of Ando's complaints, she was granted what was effectively a day pass. There was a lot of rebuilding and heaviness due to the previous events which limited her excursion to just a few places, this being ultimately how she ended up at the aquarium.[break][break]

Her excursion taking place on Sea Day was a coincidence with Ylva having come to this place because she genuinely liked it, which was saying a lot given her dislike of so many things. It was peaceful and not a place she expected many to go to given the recent mutated sea life that terrorized the bay. It was perfect. She would move through the aquarium taking a moment here or there to stop at the different displays. Approaching a particular one she would place her bandaged hand, from the incident with Ageru, on the glass, looking around for the moray eel that was hidden somewhere in the tank.[break][break]

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[Elias]

The Bird of Hermes is    my name                       Eat  My   WINGS   TO   KEEP   ME   TAME Ylva Riis

A cold front was coming, and this wasn't in reference to Ylva's presence which wasn't yet known to Elias. While the Wish-Maker facilitated nightly entertainment above in Nirvana and nigh-infinitum deals of death trade below, his benefactors schemed in their shadows and readied machinations he wasn't entirely sure he was on board with. But what was the man to do? For all his success, he was but a single piece on their board. And he needed them, loathe as he was to admit it. 

Fortunately, such morose dealings weren't the cause for his presence at the aquarium. No. The Nirvana would handle catering for a fundraising event due in a few weeks time. Contracts were signed, details ironed out, and now Ms. Aina Kumatani, his number two at Nirvana, was finalizing the details with the event's hosts and the aquarium's corporate team. 

Elias had done his part. And he trusted Aina to finish things up, the finely suited club owner went for a stroll. His only companions now were the occasional passersby and the clack of his Jon Lobb shoes. Between fighting fish monsters invading Tokyo's shores and being caught in naught but a midsummer frog's dream combatting a giant eel, it was perhaps reassuring to see plain old fish. 

The clacking of his boots paused just before the moray eel's tank. Perhaps it was callow of him, but Elias may have wanted to taunt the little beast. "Not so big now," he might have said had the thing reared its head. Instead, he was joined by a creature of a different kind. A young woman, perhaps around his age or so. Pale as snow and framed with eye-catching, light hair.  

He watches her for the briefest moment, then shifts his gaze back to the tank. "Think it's shy?" He asked. He wasn't entirely committed to striking up a conversation but wasn't entirely against one either. Curiosity, like all else, delighted in satiation. 

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[Ylva Riis]

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[attr="class","nikki109"]Even in an environment satured with water Ylva's senses remained sharp. After MAWS and Dream World, she was on an even higher alert than normal. The events had proven time and time again that anything could happen at any time and the only thing she could control was her own actions. Not pulling her gaze away from the glass she could 'feel' Elias heading towards her before her eyes could even perceive him. Not that he would know this as she didn't move, barely acknowledging his presence. She had hoped to spend the day alone, but the universe had other plans.[break][break]

She would let Elias' words hang in the air for a decent amount of time. When it became apparent that he wasn't going anywhere, she answered succinctly: "No idea. He probably doesn't like people." She didn't have eyes on him. "...He's not sleeping." she added; she could feel him moving around at the bottom of the tank. Seeing firsthand how this eel was able to avoid people 99% of the time, she was feeling something new. [break][break]

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[Elias]

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The cold shoulder didn't frighten those well acquainted with snow. A chase through the tundra, how thrilling. The most subtle of smirks framed his facial features.

"Or it's expecting a meal," he offered, eyes glossing over the unpopulated sands that bedded the tank. "moray eels don't often pursue their prey; they hole up and wait for their mark to approach of its own accord."

Or so he read after the aquatic nightmare he had been caught in. A definitive lack of expertise meant he couldn't say with certainty if that were true, but it made for conversation. She was interested enough in the little beast to give the tank a gander, no?

"But there always remains the chance that, yes, it just doesn't like people."  

A shared sentiment, even if Elias was just as liable to bury the eel himself. Most people weren't worth the time of day. And there was little entertainment to be found here so far but, again, curiosity demanded its due. A seemingly detached and attractive young woman moseying on about the aquarium on her lonesome during off-peak hours. She must have been looking for a distraction of her own, right? Yes, people weren't worth the time of day, but a person's story might merit a few minutes. Maybe more.   

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[attr="class","nikki109"]Ylva's eyes would look up and across the clear water to the other side of the tank. If it really was waiting for a meal it was probably going to wait for a while, the staff seemed a bit shaken up over the events of the last few days, and who knows if any of them were just too injured to work. Even the school nurse barely gave her a pass on resting and taking care of her injuries, and this was only because Ylva resisted so much.[break][break]

"He'll be waiting for a while then. He's moving around a lot down there." She could honestly appreciate someone who knew how to be straightforward and to the point. Hell, if she had to deal with something this was much better than the alternative. Someone like Khepri or Andy? Yuck. "Ironic if true, he doesn't like people and yet forced to interact with everyone against his will." Was she talking about herself? Or the eel? Who could say at this point. [break][break]

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[Elias]

The Bird of Hermes is    my name                       Eat  My   WINGS   TO   KEEP   ME   TAME Ylva Riis

Oh, now that was interesting. She was aware of its, or his, movements. What quirk was at work behind that pretty, porcelain visage? Enhanced sight of some sort? Could she see the grains of garnet and basalt shift? A connection to the water itself? Some sort of heat or pulse detection? Curiosity, curiosity, curiosity. 

"Oh nature, thou art a heartless wench. Rare are the occasions she plays to our preferences, no?"

One might argue there wasn't much natural about humans holding animals for display, but such was human nature. To inquire, explore, and then conquer. Ultimately, humans always had their way until, eventually, they wouldn't. 

"Perhaps, though, on occasion, a little company might be a blessing draped in disguise. You don't survive some forty million-odd years as a species alone. Solitary though they are, even the eels are tempted by some symbiotic relationships with those around them." 

There was nothing symbiotic about Elias's relationship with the fish. Had it not been for the surrounding onlookers, few though they were, and the mystery woman at his side, he was liable to end the thing's life. And yet-

"For instance, I'm sure we could see the fella fed before too long."

Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours, little beastie. 
 

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[attr="class","nikki109"]She didn't acknowledge his theatrics instead opting to respond with a simple "Sure." her eyes still not being pulled away from the tank. She was too fixated on the eel, whether she knew it or not. It was easier than thinking about the long-term implications of the Dream World incident.[break][break]

She had nothing to say about the notion that eels had a symbiotic relationship. She knew that people didn't get by on their own, but much was made very clear by her intervention that prevented Jun from dying. Her eyes would drift towards her bandaged hand, still annoyed that Andy's influence caused her to do something reckless. [break][break]

"The wait is going to be short." Ylva was lucky enough to pass the room where they stored the food and someone was clearly headed towards the tank after being in the room. Luckily her sensory abilities were a mutation so she was able to get away with breaking the rules, but wasn't risking any trouble.[break][break]

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[Elias]

The Bird of Hermes is    my name                       Eat  My   WINGS   TO   KEEP   ME   TAME Ylva Riis

Breaking this ice might require more time than Elias had. His hand fished for his pocket watch, which he thumbed open, then shut again a second later. It was nearly time for him to return to Aina so she could confirm the inevitable. That everything looked good, and all the details had been confirmed. 

"So it seems," he replied, turning his head toward the attendant that would see the eel fed. "How fortunate most eels can't swallow a person whole," he then added with words barely more than a whisper.  

He hadn't provided context, but then again, he wasn't sure Ylva had even heard him if she was paying attention to begin with. This one appeared quite detached. Had it been him or everyone, or had Elias caught the girl living in her own world today? 

Elias's eyes drifted back to the tank, then again to the woman at his side. His gaze quickly followed her own to the bandages around her hand. "Does it hurt? Your hand?" He clarified. 

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[attr="class","nikki109"]Her eyes would drift down at the attendant began the process of feeding. She wasn't exactly the type to find something like this interesting at least not normally, but perhaps it was her experience with a new quirk or that this creature looked similar to her lost friend.[break][break]

The eel would wait patiently until the food fell within its range so it could dart out and grab a few bites. It was fast, so fast that Ylva watched unblinking, afraid that she would miss it. She did hear everything that Elias had to say, she just didn't have anything important to add. In her eyes, none of this was of consequence to her, and the chances she'd run into this stranger were slim. "It's fine." she would pull her bandaged hand away from the glass and seeing that the feeding was over she decided she would make her leave "Bye." she hadn't asked for his name or even looked at him during this whole time. Whoever he was he asked more questions than Ylva usually liked, more than zero.[break][break]

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☆ MISSION SUCCESS ☆

Is the glass barrier between them and the fish truly the only invisible wall present?
Great thread you two!

+ 75 Tokens!!

Elias: 250 // 7750 EXP
Ylva: 150 // 225 Tokens

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