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You swim slowly out into the Lapis Lazuli waters which laps against you, cool and tranquil. Around you shoals of silvery minnows dart and curve across your path.The water deepens but remains clear as worked crystal. Beneath you is a coral reef, vibrant with many multihued fish dart in and out of the flamboyantly shaped sea anenomes, irridescent tails and tendrils flicking in the rippling sea light. A school of gem like seahorses surround you, their silvery trumpets piping shrill and ahead you can see a small sand bar. 
Thankful for a rest from swimming you wade up onto the rise. The water is warm here and silver minnows shimmer across the white sand. You notice a brightly coloured clump of sea weed at the edge of the sand bar and wade over to have a closer look. The seaweed bursts apart and you realise it was actually a pair of dozing fish tailed horses!They back-fin in surprise but calm swiftly, looking over your shoulder and grinning. You feel something brush your cheek and spin on your heel to see what touched you only to find a sleek, mottled green ocean dragon is towering over you, her long feline whiskers extended towards you. Her long bewhiskered head cocked to one side to watch you curiously, her arrival on the sand bar didn't even create a slight splash or sound. The blue aquequine whickers a laugh. "Don't mind Saman. She's harmless... except when threatened. I am Bardin and this is Solpere'aeger, my lead mare. We are hippocampi from the Sha-Haven. Solpere's name means 'Dawn-light' in Latin. If you like Saman might give you a lift back to the shore, we can come along too Saman rolls over onto her side and offers you a large flipper then twists slightly and with a swift flick of her tail is off the sand bar pulling you along. The shore line of Llanos island draws neared as the seadragon pulls you along and hippocampi the caper along side. A pod of seven tiny, strangely patterned fin winged dolphins leap out of the water beside you, squeaking and clicking greetings to the hippocampi who reply in kind.
"They are Faefynns, the Tir's version of the delphin of Terra. You should hear them sing in the moon light, especially on a full moon, in chorus with all their wings flaring with phosphorous - 'like a tree full of cicadas' Darkhorse says.." The dolphin creatures peep a final farewell and dive off to one side and you realise that your feet are touching the bottom of the ocean and the beach is but a few meters away. "Farewell two legger, perhaps when you come again there will be more here. And I have been asked to tell you to feel free to send any feedback about the Tir to Darkhorse, better her than us" Solpere'aeger laughs. She winks then flips her tail in farewell and swims swiftly away on her back after her mate, waving a fore hoof like a sea otter, the feyfinns peeping and gliding along beside her. Wade back to the Shore Gomen ne: Bardin's image is currently missing. I will upload him as soon as I can refind it! |