Heavenfall

"Maybe. I don't know," Agasha replied. This was uncomfortable. They were outside of her area of interest now. How did one comfort someone?

She reached out and took the ogre girls hands in hers. It seemed like a good start.

Agasha watched from below, just seeming to obverse what he was doing for now.

She pulled back and shrug. "I don't know much about ogres. Maybe. The Protected Lands are a big place."

"I'm sorry... I wish I could help more on being... Smarter. I just pay attention to stuff I'm interested in..." She shifted uncomfortably.

"You can ask more questions."

"I'm not... I don't really... I'm just... interested in things?" She suggested. "I just think about my interests a lot and ask questions. I don't know if that's smart."

"The library sounds like a good idea, though. It would be nice to have a place to really dig into things."

"Yeah. Um," she said, then seemed to remember something and bowed. "Pleased to meet you, Ninube-san."

She settled herself down. "What did you want to talk about?"

"Yay! I hope so!" She suddenly threw her arms around Ryoko, grinning. "I'm so excited!"

The young woman arrived at the tent, glancing at the surrounding area. "Um. Hello."

"Oh, I should- Oh my goodness, if your Tribe is like you, there might be even more that can do what you do! I'll have to talk to them when we leave. Or maybe have someone else talk to them, I'm not really great with people," she said, pressing her fingers to her lips, brows furrowing, then going rig...

"It sounds like your people have a deeper physical connection to the elements, which may allow you to approach manipulating them with a more flexible but less powerful approach, whereas a full human asking the kami directly have to work through barriers and specific requests to it's less adaptable b...

Agasha looked almost as excited as she was at the announcement, patting her back to help her cough up the water. "That's wonderful! I bet there are all sorts of things you could do with it once you get used to it. I wonder why your horns reflect what you're doing? Do you supposed the elements reside...

"Hmmmm..." Agasha suddenly rose, her head coming up next to Ryoko's side, under her arm as she studied the movement of the stones. Then she looked up. "Could you, say... bring a bubble of air underwater so you could breathe down there temporarily?"

"Mmm... interesting, though. If you can do that, then it's more adaptable than what sacrifice to the kami produces. And yet it must be the kami responding to it since it's elemental in nature. Interesting, interesting..." She swam over, circling Ryoko with the glitter of intense interest in her eyes...

Agasha divested herself of her clothes and ran forward, diving into the water and staying down for a while before surfacing with a sigh of relief. "That's much better." "Yes, I'm Agasha. You're Ongaku-no-Ryoko. He told me a little bit, but not much. You're manifesting effects?" She asked as she floa...

The young woman arrived soon, looking around. "It's getting hot this afternoon. Should we talk in the water?" No greeting, no initial bow, the woman who was likely Agasha just walked up and started talking.

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst is what I've heard," she agreed cheerfully.

"I think it being able to... jump its influence out like this will be a good argument," she noted. "It's not impossible it'll be that long before it leap frogs up to them without help."

She nodded again. "All right. It may be something to get together on after all is said and done. I wonder if others of the Isawa might be convinced to help...?"

"Yes, yes! Any problem goes up. The animals drink the water or eat what's in it, and predators eat them, and it spreads," she agreed. "Right now it's a concentrated area. We should search future areas to see if there's more. Something like this, it would be difficult to contain. The more nature does...

She nodded enthusiastically at that. "Yes. Well, it's a bit like if you put anything in water - it's concentrated at the epicenter of where it's poured, then slowly spreads through the medium. Though with something like this, it's... I guess it might be more like algae? A little bit gets in and soon...