Brightwood — [AW] seeing all the vultures circling

"speech" | "thoughts" When the stranger motioned for her to look at the big puddle of water, Isara was eager to go look. For a moment she almost ran to the water’s edge, but then reminded herself a second later that she still wasn’t completely certain about the stranger. So instead she slowly walked to it and gazed upon it. It was so clear and she could have sworn she saw things moving about in it. She would have asked about all the things she saw if it weren’t for the stranger talking to her that diverted her attention. ’I no wings,’ his head shook as he answered her question about him being able to fly. He then seemed to present them to her - allowing her to see them even better. ”So he can’t fly either,” she thought to herself. She had never seen wings like his, but then again she’d never had the chance to see anybody else’s wings. ’These are fins. Fins,’ Isara looked at him as he said the word more than once. Fins…she also noticed that he tapped his wing when he said the word with emphasis…was that the word for wings in his language? ”Ffffins,” the young girl repeated the word as best as she could to try out the word herself. Then she looked to her wings and tried to gesture to them while saying the word again, ”Fins,” she a bit better the second time but wasn’t aware that he had fins whereas she had wings. She looked to him to hoping she did it correctly as she heard him say more words. Swim, not fly. What exactly were those supposed to mean? She was confused for a bit before suddenly a splash in the water caught her attention and she saw a fish jump out of the water behind the stranger. ”Swima! She practically shrieked. She had heard her mother tell stories about these creatures in detail which was the only reason she knew what a fish was. Wait…swim…was that what the stranger had been talking about? That there were fish? Her eyes lit up as she watched the fish swim around in the stream. ”Swima,” she said again as she pointed as best as she could to the fish that was swimming about in the water. How much she wished she could move about with as much speed and grace as it did…one day maybe. Translations Swima = Fish