~EEYA~

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Just as he was pondering how pretty it was above the surface he noticed something coming into his field of vision. A strange brown creature came hobbling along. Wow, if the land creatures had to go so slowly on little stick legs like that he was glad he'd been born into the water with quick moving flippers. He didn't find Carrie's three legs strange as this was his first creature and as such he thought it was normal, as normal as a land critter could be anyway. He examined her further and found the brown fuzzy stuff all over her body. It looked rather itchy but she didn't scratch. Hmm, maybe it was normal then.

It seemed that she didn't notice him at first as she came right up to the river's edge to look at herself. It wasn't until a little later that she looked up and locked eyes with him. Apparently he was just as strange to her as she was to him for the creature fell back in surprise. How funny! The young dolphin gave a little whistle of laughter before he ducked beneath the surface. It might have appeared that the capybara had frightened him but that was far from the truth. If the gembound was impressed by just his appearance then she would be far more impressed with what he would do next. If he did it right.

Eeya turned around underneath the water and then kicked his tail fin as hard as he could, building up a terrific amount of speed before he broke the water's surface again. This time following some instinct that told him what he should do to execute a lovely move.

He broke the surface and while he went through the air, he twirled. Demonstrating easily what his particular species of dolphin was known for. The water spun off of his form and the light's glinted beautiful from his gem before he landed back in the water, slicing the surface with hardly a splash.

Now that he was finished showing off the dolphin swam under the water back to the capybara, this time he came up far closer to the land. His belly skimmed the surface of the ground beneath the water as he poked his beak right up to her nose, examining her even closer. "Eeeeeeeyoooooooaaaaa?" He exclaimed in the whistely voice of a dolphin. He understood the words but he had no idea that the capybara might not find them very intelligible. "Keeeekeeeoooooo!" He whistled again with a laugh.

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~EEYA~

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The dolphin stared back at the capybara, smile on his face as she investigated him. The poor critter looked a little confused at him and when she tried to come closer she nearly fell in! Eeya wasn't worried about that one bit, if she fell in he would catch her and right her. The water was his place and no one should feel in danger so long as he was around!

"Hello . . . ?" What was that strange sound coming out of her mouth? It was some weird landcritter word. He watched as she tilted her head to the side and he mirrored her by doing the same thing. Then he tilted his head to the other side and back again. He gave a whistling laugh before falling silent and tilting his head to the side again. He didn't understand what the head thing was about. Was it a game? It didn't feel like a game. Hmm...

Hello.

What was that sound? What were these actions? What should he do about them? In his mind he heard whistles and the whistles made sense to him but when he vocalized them the creature didn't understand. Why? Did she not know whistles? No. Because those strange sounds were her whistles! That was it! But... what had "hello" meant? Perhaps he should say it, then he would understand.

So, he tilted his head to the side again and opened his mouth to say the words. "Heeeeeeheeeeeeoooooooo!" He whistled. No. That wasn't right. "Heeeeeeeooooooo!" Something missing. The "l" sound. Hmm... That one was hard. He closed his mouth, thought for a moment while he moved his tongue around in his mouth then he tested the "l" sound. "Llllllllll." Now he was ready!

So with the largest smile he could muster the dolphin whistled out as loud as he could. "HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLOOOOOOO!" He did it! The same word she said and-- all at once it clicked. Once he uttered his first land word it all made sense. Other words came unbidden to his mind and while they were foreign they put landcritter words to his mind whistles. He blinked at her, a new light in his eyes as he started to understand her a little bit better.

Now, for what he had asked before. "Doooooo you swiiiiiim?" His mouth was still unused to the foreign words and as such his singsong voice had a strange accent to it. "This oooonnneee swim, he likes!" Strange words for a strange landcreature. It was still fun saying new things.

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