i might as well be the man on the moon

[truthwright]

Their Isabella having just gone to welcome a new Bell into the peal, Kas and Petaal snuggle up together and take a nap. They'll want to be well rested for the party.

When they wake up, she still isn't back.

[Jane?]

No response.

Kas teleports down to the Janepoint, Petaal wrapped snake-shaped around his shoulders.

The display reads: error 7788: lycanthropy

"...So that's new," he says.

"No shit," says Petaal. "Now what?"

He shrugs. She coils tighter.

"Hang around and wait, I guess."

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"Of course."

The aquarium has a cafeteria, with tables oriented around a koi pond. (You are not supposed to feed the koi, but daemons may join them.)

[carillons]

Kalavar turns into a tiny sea serpent with brilliant turqoise scales and a dragonish head, and she swims around with the pretty pretty koi.

[alicornucopia]

Meanwhile, humans eat food! It is adequate cafeteria food.

[carillons]

Om nom.

"What other creatures are there to see?" wonders Helen. "Are there more squishy ones?"

[alicornucopia]

Nothing quite as squishy, but:

sea cucumbers!

[carillons]

Ooooooh.

"They're lumpy," she giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"Yup!"

And there are many kinds.

[carillons]

Helen is pleased with all the kinds. She goes and looks at them all.

[alicornucopia]

And then there are assorted sharks!

[carillons]

Ooooh, sharks.

[alicornucopia]

Sharks are not squishy, but they are very sharky.

[carillons]

They are!

"I like sharks," Helen announces.

[alicornucopia]

"They are cool!"

Next: brightly colored tropical fishes all mixed up together.

[carillons]

"Ooh, colours," says Kalavar. She sits on Helen's head and turns into a dragon with big arched wings that contain all of the colours.

[alicornucopia]

There are a lot of colors, although a surprising fraction of the fish just use black and white and yellow.

[carillons]

Still, it is plenty of colours! And Kalavar is all of them. She is so pretty.

[alicornucopia]

She is. A few passing children's daemons copy her.

[carillons]

She preens her vivid wings with her little dragon nose.

[alicornucopia]

Aww.

After the colorful tropical fish are eels. Including electric ones.

[carillons]

"Ooh," says Helen. "They're wiggly!"

[alicornucopia]

They are wiggly, and the electric ones have sensors in their tanks to tell you how electric they are being at any given time.

[carillons]

Kalavar becomes a snake and coils around Helen's shoulders while Helen peers at the wiggly eels and reads the sensors on the electric ones.

[alicornucopia]

After eels are funny fishes that pop up vertically from the sand at the floor of their tank, like grass.

[carillons]

She giggles at the funny fishes! They are funny.

[alicornucopia]

Next are manatees. They drift about peacefully and eat lettuce.