[She makes a thoughtful noise, tilting back to look at the reflections as they refract off the ceiling, like bubbles holding the whole pool as a scene underwater.]
It's another way of viewing the light and the way it plays off the surfaces of the world. [She tries to at least describe it in a way that might still match his perception.] To me, as well as beauty, there's much to learn from it. The sea is darker, deeper, where no light reaches it at all, and brightly colored creatures are often toxic, so their color is a warning.
[ They look up at Cantarella, as if considering something. To him, light and bright are basically the same thing, so it's hard to make a distinction. ]
High pigmentation can be very intense, so it may not be light or dark so much as dense.
[Cantarella tragically does not have a saturation filter to look at her own appearance or the world so she might describe the grayscale of a toxic sea eel. And the most useful example of it in a person would be...
Someone she cannot mention right now, vibrantly bright in her own way and now gone.]
As for myself... I am the most potent poison my family has ever produced, but, much like a gentle jellyfish, I do not mean you any harm.
[For what it's worth, the way Cantarella talks about her own family and whatever happened to put her in this position, she doesn't speak with any hostility. The words and the feelings behind them go deep, are complicated in the darkness, but there is also a placid softness to her voice.
It's complicated. The undisturbed water plunges deep.
The bottom of the pool, on the other hand, is visible. It seems like it can collect all of their thoughts at its bed.]
I don't see why not. The water can hold us while we can't hold ourselves.
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[She makes a thoughtful noise, tilting back to look at the reflections as they refract off the ceiling, like bubbles holding the whole pool as a scene underwater.]
It's another way of viewing the light and the way it plays off the surfaces of the world. [She tries to at least describe it in a way that might still match his perception.] To me, as well as beauty, there's much to learn from it. The sea is darker, deeper, where no light reaches it at all, and brightly colored creatures are often toxic, so their color is a warning.
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[ They look up at Cantarella, as if considering something. To him, light and bright are basically the same thing, so it's hard to make a distinction. ]
You're very light, I think. Are you poisonous?
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[Cantarella tragically does not have a saturation filter to look at her own appearance or the world so she might describe the grayscale of a toxic sea eel. And the most useful example of it in a person would be...
Someone she cannot mention right now, vibrantly bright in her own way and now gone.]
As for myself... I am the most potent poison my family has ever produced, but, much like a gentle jellyfish, I do not mean you any harm.
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There’s something about that which squeezes Siffrin’s heart, but they don’t understand why. ]
Well, if you’re not going to hurt me, then… do you want to come in?
i just realized i had this tag open but could also just reply to cap it off? i'm tying it
It's complicated. The undisturbed water plunges deep.
The bottom of the pool, on the other hand, is visible. It seems like it can collect all of their thoughts at its bed.]
I don't see why not. The water can hold us while we can't hold ourselves.