Snippet #1486213

Ah-- glares of death, this time with double the intensity! He really was becoming popular. Still, Adam tried not to let it bother him unduly and reflected none of their harshness or hate, picking up a ladder from another tank and bringing it over to hook it over the lip of the tank the merfolk were contained in. Kai's whimpers about fake jellyfish alarmed him a little but it was soon soothed over by the other merfolk-- were they a family of sorts? Nerin looked too young to be Kai's mother, but then again, who knew how they aged?

At least Nausicaa seemed at ease with them. Though he was not aware of it, Adam's mind was apparently heading in an entirely different direction to the thoughts of the merfolk and Nausicaa: then again, it was becoming clear that they saw the world very differently. Adam agreed that the ocean was a fantastic place, beauty almost beyond compare-- but only almost. He was the kind that saw beauty in everything. The merfolk had never seen the shadows of grass-lined valleys, daisies blazing in the sun, snow on mountaintops and the closeness of the clouds! Perhaps they had no interest in it whatsoever, but Adam hoped that they did, because he felt that there was so much potential for them to share.

"Hello again," he said evenly as he reached the top of the ladder, tilting his head to one side slightly as he watched them. He glanced sidelong at Nausicaa and smiled at her more brightly than he had been previously-- the merfolk seemed to find his smiling annoying. How could he help it? "I'm sorry they're not live. I couldn't feed live squid to anything." He shrugged, a little embarrassedly but mostly just stating a fact.