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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 3:12:42 GMT -5
"Dessert? No more food."
He didn't want to eat up everything Erik had brought home, after all, and as for waiting, well, he's swam and eaten at the same time for many years and nothing had ever happened to him.
The little man hopped down from his chair and grabbed Valentine's hand, pulling him up and toward the door. "Is very cold, okay? Valentine can swim, yes?"
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 3:18:01 GMT -5
"Oop! Uh... well..." He was not very sure he could swim, and he was very certain he did not prefer to be frozen to death, but it seemed like his little patron was insisting and somehow, he could not resist.
"Ah b'lieve I can, but... er..." He did not exactly have an excuse, and if he couldn't swim, he was going to learn very quickly, or he'd end up drowning himself, and it would have been quite the waste. "Jest doon't laugh if I doon't do so very well..."
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 3:24:45 GMT -5
"Hm? Is okay, will help, like f' help Erik when sick. Can swim better not-like-person, okay?"
To the door they went, and then outside to the shore of the lake, in the dark. His own eyesight was equally perfect in light or darkness, and so he had always assumed people could see just as well, and thus expected that Valentine could see his frame taking on its different sharkish shape as he slipped into the water and waited.
"Okay, come now!"
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 3:37:22 GMT -5
Looking around nervously (not that he could really see anyone or anything in the dark), Valentine slipped his clothing off, preferring to have something dry to change into when he came out of the water... if he came out. He was completely unaware of what Mortimer had become, but perhaps it was better that way.
If Moritmer were watching, he would see more of the same broken stripes on Valentine's legs, reaching down to his ankles from the bridge of his pelvis, making four straight "Bars" going down them. There were also four more bars on his torso: two down his chest and stomach, and an identical set on the back, not that they could be seen yet. The rest of him was still thin but fairly toned in form, like just about any street-urchin-turned-performer.
Toeing his way into the water, Valentine stopped at about knee depth and held onto his arms, shivering terribly and teeth chattering. "Ok-k-k-k-kay... I'm.... cold."
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 3:40:03 GMT -5
"Come in, will get better!" he chuckled and splashed around lightly in front of the man, turning a circle and settling his body so that his head and tail were resting just on the surface, the rest of him submerged. If Valentine could see nothing else, he would at least be able to make out the faint animal glow of the deathgod's eyes.
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 3:46:47 GMT -5
That much, he could see, but only when he looked up for a minute to take a couple steps farther in, still shivering as the water came up over his hips. With his whole body trying to shrink up to keep warm, Valentine still hugged himself for warmth.
"W-what is th-that?" he asked, trying to figure out what the little glows were in the water, not thinking it could have been Mortimer's eyes looking back at him.
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 3:53:02 GMT -5
He moved, water slid, and the glows moved as well.
"What is...?"
The little creature swam closer, using his tail to propel himself slowly forward, really looking like some sort of crocodillian more than a shark with the way be moved. He circled around Valentine with a light trill, urging him forward into the water, the depth of which dropped off quickly.
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 3:57:38 GMT -5
As his eyes started to adjust, Valentine no longer felt cold, but very afraid as he realized the eyes were coming toward him. The shape pushed him farther in, and as it was, he was not exactly keen on complying, but neither did he want whatever it was (not realizing it was Mortimer) to touch him.
Moving farther in, he gave a strangled yelp of surprise as he found himself suddenly submerged and flailing to find the surface again.
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 4:03:19 GMT -5
Mortimer gave a similarly startled cry and dove after the man, grabbing hold of him with thicker, strong webbed hands and pulled him to the surface.
"Not move so much..."
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 4:07:51 GMT -5
Coughing and struggling to breathe, he clung to the sharkman for dear life, and only after he'd cleared his lungs of the invading water did it dawn on him that the sharkman and Mortimer were the same person...thing.
"Yeh... yeh startled me... Moortimer... I thought there was... soome sorta monster in th'water..." he panted, hugging Mortimer tighter, not quite ready to try on his own yet.
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 4:13:39 GMT -5
He glided through the water, back to where Valentine would be able to stand and then circled around him once or twice, stopping in front of him again.
"Not mean to scare...thought could see--am ugly monster."
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 4:20:11 GMT -5
Valentine froze up again, but not from cold or fright - he had insulted his host, his sort-of-new-friend. His mouth turned down and he hung his head a little, feeling ashamed of himself.
"I... I'm sorry, Mortimer," he whispered, talking more at the water than the sharkman. "Ah didn'know y'could do that..."
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 4:25:23 GMT -5
"Is okay. Come swim, is good."
He turned in the water and put his back to the man, willing to swim him around on his back as he had done for Erik when the man was too injured to swim for himself.
"Can hold on."
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Post by Valentine on Nov 23, 2008 4:32:41 GMT -5
"Are yeh sure? Woon't it hurt you?" he said, looking up to make out the silvery line that seemed to hang in midair where Mortimer's dorsal fin was. Then again, the little man had tugged him along a lot all day...
"Dun't go to fast foor me..." he said, leaning to take hold of the little sharkman's shoulders.
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Post by Mortimer on Nov 23, 2008 4:36:57 GMT -5
Mortimer chuckled and pushed off from the floor of the lake, gliding forward and straightening out, his body moving steadily back and forth under Valentine in opposite direction to his tail, his arms at his sides only moving occasionally to propel them one way or another or keep them steady so that Valentine wouldn't slip off him.
"Is okay? Like f' swim?"
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