"Since I was grown, anyway." Ko shrugged, relaxing somewhat now that it didn't seem Jin was going to set her on fire or try to stitch her up. "It's only daughters in our Pearl roundhouse who have the gift, and not everyone gets it. Always at least one person, though, they say." She glanced up at the crack through which she'd wriggled in. It sounded like the horrible rain had no plans to abate just yet. She drifted a bit further into the tomb (and thus closer toward Jin as well) and propped herself against a short stretch of wall between burial alcoves.Jin wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 12:23 pmJins furrow grows deeper though more of curiosity than deepening concern, "So you have... always... had these? Since birth? Or is it some spirit-touch that came later in life?" First the bat-boy, then the ogress, and now this. It seems the touch of other races in our realm has been long and deep indeed.
"That's why we're Pearl roundhouse. Our past-grandmother who came from the sea brought pearls for her bridegroom gift, and our daughters are the best pearl divers on the whole coastline." There was obvious pride lying behind this explanation.
If you didn't look closely you might not even notice the gill slits once they'd fully appeared, though their slight independent movement was probably still disconcerting when you did focus on them.