[Video] A tiny resident

[littledoctor]

[David has found a nice, safe nook to study his SFC in and has finally activated the thing. He looks curious as he chuckles while wringing out his hat and addressing the video.]

Say, what sort of creatures live in this place? I didn't know there were any animals underwater that had a place like this! I've heard that there are air-breathing sea mammals, but this place seems like it was made for humans.

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[watcheshisrear]

I've never heard of people living under the water before, but humans seem to be able to live anywhere whether they like it or not.

[littledoctor]

Humans certainly are adaptable! I've heard of merfolk, so I was wondering if this was one of their cities...

[Ponder ponder. He smiles at the girl.]

By the way, my name is David. It's nice to meet you, miss!

[watcheshisrear]

Merfolk...? Ah, hi, I'm Yoko. It's good to meet you, too.

So about those merfolk, do you mean some kind of beastmen?

[littledoctor]

Beastmen?

[He doesn't sound fond of the term.]

I'm referring to aquatic creatures with opposable thumbs. In some tales they have a lower half resembling a dolphin, in others they're bipedal with fins on the sides of their faces and gills. They do resemble humans.

[watcheshisrear]

Yeah, that sounds about right. [ She shrugs. ] It's a real problem, no matter who is at fault. Humans don't belong down here.

[littledoctor]

[It looks like the little gnome is concentrating deeply before he answers.]

I'm not sure anyone is really at fault here. Arriving felt more like wandering into an errant faerie's spell than anything else. We shouldn't be too quick to blame the inhabitants of this place.

[watcheshisrear]

A spell? Like magic?

[ She can believe she's talking to a very, very tiny man... but faeries is pushing it. ]

Somehow, I really don't think that's the problem here. Assuming that much is a stretch.

[littledoctor]

[He laughs, a real belly laugh that most people would want to laugh right along with. It's not any sort of mocking sound, he just seems genuinely amused.]

Magic is real, Yoko. Most humans just forgot about it a long time ago!

[watcheshisrear]

H-hey...

[ But even though she looks embarrassed, she doesn't seem offended. ]

It's just kind of weird to think about. It's probably some sort of crazy technology, that's all.

[littledoctor]

[He doesn't try to force her to believe in magic or even show her any of his own. In learning science, humans have forgotten a lot of the old way of things - trying to show her his magic would probably result in her calling it smoke and lights.]

It is a little strange that we all showed up here. Are you good with technology? Maybe we can work out what's happening if we can figure out more about these.

[David holds up his SFC.]

I figured out how to make a moving picture, but it seemed like there might be an information base on it too.

[watcheshisrear]

I'm not half-bad at stuff like that, we'll see what I can work out. It doesn't look that complicated.

[ She fidgets with her SFC. ]

And even if we don't get the answers we want, it's not like we're alone in here. We'll get to the bottom of this, David. I'm not about to let them go around trapping innocent people.