"Do you want one?"

"Not really."

"Huh. Okay."

Smile.

"So what do you think of my river?"

"Is that this one?"

"Yeah."

"I love it!"

"Good! It's a good river."

"It is full of moving water."

"Rivers generally are."

"Oh good!"

"Some of them have more or less, or have it moving faster or slower."

Nod, nod.

She reaches into the water, picks a piece of seaweed, and holds it up. "Sometimes rivers have plants growing in them. This kind is edible." She eats it.

Water picks some and tastes it.

It tastes like seaweed.

"Yum!"

"You can eat fish, too. They taste better cooked, though."

"Why?"

"I think it's because our tongues mostly work like humans' and they can get hurt if they eat animals raw."

"What's a human?"

"...They're...like us, but they can do less things. Well. Like spirits, I don't know about elementals."

"Oh."

"They have to stay physical all the time and most of them can't do magic. You look like the kind that can."