"Maybe? I hadn't thought about it."

"Spirits don't always wear clothes but humans do."

"I don't know what elementals usually do."

"I don't either."

"What are they for?"

"Sometimes they are for keeping warm. Sometimes they are just for hiding the parts of your body involved with sex."

"I'm not cold. I think if I was cold my halo would fix it. Why do they hide those?"

"I don't know."

"Why do you wear clothes?"

"The fact that humans almost always cover their sex bits means that nudity is inherently sexual to them, and I don't know if my daughter's ever going to want to live in human society but if she does I don't want her to have habits that make it more difficult."

"Oh. I will wear clothes if you want."

"It would make things slightly more convenient. And it would make things significantly more convenient for you, if you decide to visit humans."

Nod. "I would need some clothes."

"I will make you clothes."

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome!" She swims to the shore and walks into the forest.

Water amuses herself but leaves the stinging kind of bug alone.

Mileda comes back about an hour later with most of the useful parts of a dead-and-disassembled deer buoyed on top of some water.

"What's that?"

"It's a deer."

"Why?"

"The skin is good for making clothes with."

"Ooh."

"I left the skin curing in the forest, though, it smells kind of bad."

"Why does it smell bad?"