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[nomnoms]

Who: Nanaue and you!
When: Mid to late July
Where: Solvunn, Horizon
What: Nanaue encounters new friends (or new nom noms?)
Warnings: Usual sharkman-who-eats-everything warnings, blanket one for animal death and gore. If you'd like to play with him but want to avoid any/all mention of gore, add FRIENDSHIP to the subject line!

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[princessvegas]

[ Hm. For the first time since they met, Julie is genuinely having trouble understanding what he's talking about. It's probably not his fault -- it's not exactly a story that seems to make much sense even better told. Cleo is friends with all rats? What does that mean? Sebastian, who Julie assumes is one of the rats, didn't wear a disguise? What?

She does not press him for more details. She knows they won't help.

Instead, she watches his gestures with a giggle. This part, she understands. His friends (Cleo and her rats?) directed his hunger toward the... giant starfish. Which, again, is a mystery, at least until he changes the little sand starfish and sends it drifting into the air.

This is the point at which Julie realizes that he is not talking about any kind of starfish she has any knowledge of. ]

Is that what starfish are like in your world? [ She asks with round eyes, clearly not having been expecting this twist. ] In mine, starfish are real little. Not big enough to fight.

[ Burying her toes in the sand, she resumes packing damp sand into a large mound. ] How did it taste?

[nomnoms]

[ That's okay, Julie. Nanaue doesn't notice that she isn't following his story. He gets distracted by his floating sandy starfish, filling in all the colors as best he remembers: pink and blue and yellow. It blinks at Julie as it floats by, but its limbs remain mostly inanimate. ]

Nooo! [ He draws out the word and chortles, finding the question about what starfish in his world look like inexplicably funny. ] Bad starfish in tower. Make people dumb. Want eat face.

[ That's how he interpreted it.

He tries to remember how the giant bad starfish tasted, and as the floating starfish drifts his way again... he abruptly chomps it in one bite. ]

Salty!

[princessvegas]

[ Oh. Wow. She doesn't really know what to say to that. Want eat face? She can't even really imagine it. But then, she's sure Nanaue would be unable to fathom the world she's lived through, either. Julie doesn't need to ask him more questions about it. She's all right without an explanation. ]

Makes sense. [ She giggles as he bites the fake starfish. ] I can see why it'd taste like salt. They do live in saltwater.

[ Patting some more sand onto her mound, her hands suddenly glow pink. The pile of sand begins to mold itself, steadily moving until there's a full-sized, albeit small, dog. It looks like a little terrier, with floppy ears and a tail that begins to wave wildly as it comes to life, flicking grains of sand in every direction. Its eyes open and then its mouth, a sand tongue lolling out.

The sand dog yips and prances over to Nanaue, where it dances back and forth playfully, bowing and barking. ]

Now you can have a dog friend.

[nomnoms]

[ Julie always seems to know what he's talking about! She is his favorite (except when Wanda is his favorite, or Claire and her houses for bees, or....)

(he has many favorites)

Nanaue watches with deep interest as Julie uses her magic to conjure another strange creature. He's about to yell excitedly that she made him a giant rat, but then she calls it a dog and he starts clapping his hands. ]

Tiny friend! [ Like her weird tiny friends! But more sandy! As it yips at him he hauls himself up, guffawing. Soon enough he is being chased and chasing the sand terrier along the shoreline, leaving Julie to herself. ]

[princessvegas]

Don't forget to name him!

[ Julie calls after him with a laugh, then sits back to watch him for a bit before she leaves. The dog will melt back to sand once Nanaue is done playing, unless he manages to register the idea of it sticking around like a pet, in which case it will remain present. ]