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a little mermaid in a fantasy larp school
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Nod.

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"Yeah I think that probably has to be magic. What kind of fish are the other sisters, like what colors and stuff, I can look that up too."

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With some searching the two of them determine that Cyllene has two ray sisters, a sea jelly sister, a leafy seadragon sister, a thresher shark sister - actually another shark sister, a catshark; Cyllene didn't realize because she was so small - and an arctic char mother.  Cyllene thinks she herself was a blue shark.

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Sesh becomes abruptly obsessed with leafy seadragons and sends fourteen pictures of them to the printer to put on her walls.

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Hee hee.

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The lights flash for dinner. It's fish tonight, actually, but they are eating it dipped in peppery egg batter and deep fried and smothered in garlic lime sauce.

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HUMANS ARE SO GOOD AT FOOD.  It doesn't even taste THAT much better than other human stuff she's eaten but the difference between this and what she ate as a fish person is WOW.

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"You like this recipe, huh?" giggles Sesh, who is separating all of her fish from the batter and eating the batter by itself and dipping the fish in the sauce.

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Fish people are so boring of at to for about food.

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"Well you can't really cook in the sea."

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Nod nod chomp chomp.

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Now Sesh has to go take a bath.

"You should take a bath too," she tells Cyllene while she's heading up to the bathroom she prefers.

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How?

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"You fill a tub up with water and soap and you wash off all your dead skin and sweat and dirt and stuff! And your hair! - you don't wash off your hair you wash stuff off your hair."

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Dead skin?

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"Skin is dying like all the time! The top layer of your skin is actually ALREADY DEAD. It's -"

"Sesh, this looks a lot like dawdling..."

"I'LL TELL YOU LATER. OR READ MY HUMAN ANATOMY BOOK."

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Well, if Cyllene has to wait for Sesh (and possibly Paju?) to finish with their baths then yeah, she'll check out the human anatomy book while she waits.  Especially since she can do that while plucking at her harp.

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The human anatomy book confirms that human skin is constantly dying and replacing itself.

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Woaaah.  She wonders if her old skin also did that; it didn't feel like it was but her human skin also doesn't.  She switches to harping at her skin to get it to tell it about itself but doesn't get super far before the bath is free.

Bath: What Is It Like??

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It is warm! It is bubbly! It doesn't taste good at all!

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Blechh!  Also ack water going in her nose is pretty bad as well, even though it smells good out of her nose.  She splashes some water out of the tub from shaking her head trying to get it out of her face.

Tubs are much much too small to swim in, in a way that's pretty disconcerting, but eventually she finds a comfortable position and then it's kind of relaxing.

It's kind of really relaxing.

 

. . . It's relaxing enough that she maybe dozes off a little.

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She is not three years old so no one is actually trying to supervise her in the tub and this will not be noticed! Hopefully she doesn't get any in her nose while dozing!

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She does not, and she's not out for long enough that the water goes cold either.  Baths are excellent she wants to take them - well, not all the time or she should have just stayed a fish person but frequently.  It's so warm and nice and not at all like the sea, anyways.  Only the good parts.

- There's something kind of weird about the skin on her hands though, she should go ask someone if that's normal.  She stands up and steps out of the tub and tries not to slip on the splashed water and fails with a painful thunk.

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"You all right in there? Uh, kick the door if I don't need to come in."

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She kicks the door.

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