She couldn't help the little smile that was threatening, but kept her gaze down as she leaned into the hug. It was... comfortable. Something she hadn't really had in what felt like forever... at least, excepting the trio that'd found her in the forest to bring her back, and when she was reunited with her friend shortly thereafter. When even was the last time she had, before her attempt to retire? She didn't interrupt Aqua, simply slid an arm around hers to give a little bit of a squeeze back, waiting to hear her out.
And it was a lot. She absolutely had to give her credit, she was quite gifted at picking things out. Perhaps if her headache had been rooted in more existentially-based doubts... but she was chewing on her lip a little by the end, all the same, and trying ever so hard to keep amusement out of her tone when she spoke up again after.
"I meant more the practical aspects of what we each are. I haven't had a living body since before my earliest clear memories." She peeked up finally, attempting to disguise her expression in sheepishness, and lifted a little hand in offering. On it, what looked at first like a large butterfly was climbing up onto her raised finger... but it wasn't quite a normal butterfly, not with a face like that. It wasn't quite a normal butterfly, as thick and fluffy as its black fur was, resembling a blurry little dress, the apparent skirt obscuring most of its four hind legs such that it looked to be a more humanoid creature than it actually was. It moved its wings again, out and spread, and then folded them carefully down behind it, as it looked up to Aqua....
That delicate little inchling creature, if she wasn't kidding, had been her. At least her usual adult form's appearance was now fairly well explained, from the colors and pattern of her dress, to the sometimes-wings-often-cape that hung down at her back, to her habit of wearing her hair up high behind her, the insect's little tuft of fur forming a rather pointed look similar to it.
"I don't really know how tired everyone may be, or how long they might need, to be ready to try again, toward the farms...." She sighed, frowning a little again. "I know, I know... ask them." She lowered her hand again, to rest it between Aqua's arm and her knees, and her little fairy phantom, seeming as solid as any creature that actually existed, fluttered to keep its balance as she did, and then settled again and looked back up to Aqua, tilting its tiny head. "But a simple question and answer isn't the same as having had even the experience of living among them. ...To be honest, even when I had been traveling around and living among them... I was never really close enough to... to know them.
"I'll be over myself in a bit, I'm certain. I think perhaps it's... everything finally catching up to me at long last, is all." She peeked back up again, smushing one of the little roses in her hair bow some against Aqua as she tilted her head back further, "If you think of something I'm missing... if there's something I ought to be doing instead... if my sense of time is again differing wildly from all of yours... I trust you'll tell me?" It didn't seem like much of a question. And it surely wasn't, as she doubtless knew the answer already.
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Date: 2024-01-01 02:48 am (UTC)And it was a lot. She absolutely had to give her credit, she was quite gifted at picking things out. Perhaps if her headache had been rooted in more existentially-based doubts... but she was chewing on her lip a little by the end, all the same, and trying ever so hard to keep amusement out of her tone when she spoke up again after.
"I meant more the practical aspects of what we each are. I haven't had a living body since before my earliest clear memories." She peeked up finally, attempting to disguise her expression in sheepishness, and lifted a little hand in offering. On it, what looked at first like a large butterfly was climbing up onto her raised finger... but it wasn't quite a normal butterfly, not with a face like that. It wasn't quite a normal butterfly, as thick and fluffy as its black fur was, resembling a blurry little dress, the apparent skirt obscuring most of its four hind legs such that it looked to be a more humanoid creature than it actually was. It moved its wings again, out and spread, and then folded them carefully down behind it, as it looked up to Aqua....
That delicate little inchling creature, if she wasn't kidding, had been her. At least her usual adult form's appearance was now fairly well explained, from the colors and pattern of her dress, to the sometimes-wings-often-cape that hung down at her back, to her habit of wearing her hair up high behind her, the insect's little tuft of fur forming a rather pointed look similar to it.
"I don't really know how tired everyone may be, or how long they might need, to be ready to try again, toward the farms...." She sighed, frowning a little again. "I know, I know... ask them." She lowered her hand again, to rest it between Aqua's arm and her knees, and her little fairy phantom, seeming as solid as any creature that actually existed, fluttered to keep its balance as she did, and then settled again and looked back up to Aqua, tilting its tiny head. "But a simple question and answer isn't the same as having had even the experience of living among them. ...To be honest, even when I had been traveling around and living among them... I was never really close enough to... to know them.
"I'll be over myself in a bit, I'm certain. I think perhaps it's... everything finally catching up to me at long last, is all." She peeked back up again, smushing one of the little roses in her hair bow some against Aqua as she tilted her head back further, "If you think of something I'm missing... if there's something I ought to be doing instead... if my sense of time is again differing wildly from all of yours... I trust you'll tell me?" It didn't seem like much of a question. And it surely wasn't, as she doubtless knew the answer already.