Diplomatic Immunity--Preface: Vasha's Discovery, Part II

[Bront]

Vasha smiles "I guess it does, but my mother was a Naiad too, so I guess that makes us Cousins?"

Vasha hugs Zarina "It doesn't matter, I'm just glad to be greeted so warmly."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Well, maybe cousins, but you'rre a full Naiad, rright? And I'm just a Feldorri with a Naiad fatherr."

"Oh, well I'm happy that you feel that way--beforre I was afrraid that maybe I made you uncomforrtable," Zarina beams.

 

[Bront]

"I chose to blossom, but my father was Valsian.... A Naiad father?" Vasha does a double take.

OOC: I almost missed that, figured she did too I understand, but Vasha doesn't.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Oh, so you werre orriginally a half-Nymph and you somehow became a Nymph? Wow!"

"Oh, yes. My fatherr was a Naiad and my motherr was a Feldorri."

(OOC: No worries )

 

[Bront]

"How can you have a Naiad father? We're all female."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Oh, yes, of courrse she was female...I'm sorry, it must seem odd to you to have a Naiad as my fatherr, but my people, like many, call the one who bearrs the child the motherr and the one who contrributes the seed forr the baby the fatherr," Zarina says in explanation.

*Then she opens her mouth and points to two sharp teeth along the top of her mouth that have been retracted inwards.*

"When one of my people experriences love orr passion, these two extend in the midst of the kiss and lightly pierrce the father, extrracting herr genetic material from the blood, orr so I am told by the experrts."

 

[Bront]

"Oooh, that makes sense." Vasha smiles. "Well, it's always good to meet family, however extended they might be."

"I think Karya and I are interested in experiencing your bath house here."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Oh, surre! I have crreated this all-naturral bathhouse in my fatherr's memorry, and following in herr footsteps. One of my arrdent goals is forr this to be a place wherre starr-trravelling Naiads like my fatherr can rrelax and experrience symbiosis...Eldiz is not enough of a naturral envirronment forr most Nymphs, but if I do my best to make a nice place forr them herre, maybe it will help morre of them see the starrs and find trrue-daughterrs....like me. Oh, I prrobably should explain--My fatherr called me herr trrue-daughterr because my motherr was herr trrue-sisterr; she said it made herr feel like a Sidhe, since usually only a Sidhe can have a daughterr with herr trrue-sisterr, and even then it is verry difficult and involves a long rritual...but then...Well, no sense dwelling on unhappy memorries."

 

[Bront]

"Oh, I didn't know, I'm so sorry Cousin." She says, offering Zarina a reassuring hug.

"How do you get all this water up here? It must be so hard to do. Do you think you could give me a tour?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Well, surre! I would love to give you a tourr if you like--actually, the rreason our bathhouse has to be so expensive is because we go to the expense of rrerrouting naturral and purre underrgrround sprring waterr dirrectly to our baths, and that isn't easy. We neverr would have been able to starrt if it wasn't forr the money we found when we got herrre."