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[Webby appears... upside-down? No, adjusting your mirror-phone won't fix it, she's actually like that - she's practicing headstands, and had turned it on so she could talk.]

Hi everyone! I heard we got a bunch of newbies, so if we haven't met, I'm Webby Vanderquack! I've been here a while, so I figured it's time I really took advantage of all the different people here. See, one day, I'm going to be the best adventurer - slash - spy - slash - explorer, and to do that I need to know absolutely everything about everything!

Plus, I like learning stuff. It's fun!

[Now she begins trying to balance on one hand, then goes back to the other hand.]

Back home, just being with my friends taught me all kinds of things! Dewey taught me about sledding, Huey taught me about the Junior Woodchucks, Louie taught me how con free juice, and Lena taught me how to take no prisoners in a pillow fight.

So what I'm asking is, what do you think you can teach me? I'll take lessons on anything! Weaponry, martial arts, cooking, sewing, photography, hacking, fashion, basket-weaving, lion-taming - uh-oh - WHOA -

[In the middle of her list, she lost her balance and fell over right onto her side. Oof.]

... how to identify a concussion...

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[fortunately there's a window on the roomquarium too. He is alerted to the banging on the glass like a muffled heartbeat and scuds over to smile at the duckling.]

Hallo. Do you want to come in?

Hi! And yes I do!

... The water's not gunna spill out if I open the window, will it?

I don't know.

[he opens the window. The water remains and he laughs because it's funny]

Everything is so strange here. [then he scuds back and opens his arms]

Come under Vebbywanderquack.

Great! And you can call me Webby!

[She holds her breath and climbs in! After taking a good look around, she swims to the surface, or wherever the water simply isn't, popping her head up to get some air.]

Wow, this is way different from my apartment!

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[there is a bit of thin space on the ceiling, enough for a duckling to breathe and keep her head mostly above water. He has a much bigger head and squishes it at the top of the ceiling, peering at her with his eyes just above the water]

Webby. Does your apartment have nests in it? Aby said that's what birds build but I've never seen one. Except for bubble nests.

Uh, nope! I sleep in a bed, not a nest. But you sleep in the water, right? Do you sleep all not long, or do you need air at any point?

Night is when it's not bright, isn't it? [as nothing was ever dark, even though everyone said it was. At least not like the crushing deep]

It's dangerous to sleep all not bright. That's a long time. Anything can come up on you. But I don't have lungs like you do. [he poked her chest with a finger, giving her a little push in the water] I breathe through my skin. So long as I have a single tendril in the water I can survive. [he frowned] But not happily.

Neat! This is fascinating! If my friend Huey was here, he'd be popping questions at you all day and all night.

Is Huey your bloom mate? Do you miss him?

I... have no idea what that means, so I'm gunna say no? He's one of my friends! He loves asking questions and proving he knows everything when he really doesn't.

[he doesn't know how to explain it so he'll just leave it as is]

He's like Aby. Only Aby really does know everything. [and then] Want to see my lights now? I'll sow you, but you have to promise not to drown.

Sure! I'll hold my breath!

[And she inhales! Fingers crossed.]

[he grins, taking her hand and pulling her under gently-- Then he scoots back so she can get the full display.

The stars under his skin glimmer at first, then begin to spiral, multicolored, dancing over and through him from head to the tip of his longest tendrils. 'come here,' they said. 'sing the old song with me. it's not painful it's just sleep. sleep of endless dreams']

[... She wants to touch the tendrils. She's gunna try to touch the tendrils.]

[the lights faded and he swept his tentacles away from her grasp, taking her hand in his instead]

You would die, little duckling, if you touched them. [she wouldn't exactly, but he wanted to make her afraid of them if another merjelly came. It would still hurt her whether it killed her or not and the stinging he couldn't stop.]

[She gives a thumbs up, as in, 'good to know, thank you for telling me!'

... Lungs starting to ache.]

[he can tell a little and pushes her gently up to where air is so she can breathe]

You can do magic, can't you?

Just for my weapon. I'm still learning, and it's all combat-based.

[off-hand shrug!]

What's your weapon? Can you show me? I want to see all kinds of magic.

Oh, sure, hang on!

[After a few moments, she unhooks her grappling-hook gun from her waist.]

Ta-da! It's like the one I have at home, minus my carved initials.

Ohhh! [his lights flash happily] What does it do? How does it magic? Show me!

Sure! ... Is there anything in here you wouldn't mind being broken?

You can break anything! [a laugh] Except me!

[not that there's much in the tank but rocks and sea weed and various bits of coral, but he's excited to see anything happen]

All right, here I go!

[She aims at a large piece of coral, and fires! The hook would normally just smash into the coral, but with a bit of magic, wraps tightly around it instead!]

Ooooh [that was nice.]

[a beat and then]

Now what?

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