10th ♥ [Audio/Commentlog]

[lightwithin]

Who said something about bass spawning soon?

[Kairi's voice sounds a little distant, and there's the lapping sound of water against a boat's side.]

Does anyone else know about - Oh! - About fishing in the cold? No, come back!

[She doesn't really have hands free to search the journal herself right now.]

It broke my line again.

[Kairi can be found out on the lake, piled under blankets, with a makeshift fishing pole and a bucket full of worms. She's caught a few weedy little things.

She wants to catch a big one!]

Comments

[Audio]

[fallintheriver]

That was me.

But that's the bass back home, I don't know about here. It depends on the species.

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

Well, what do they do back home?

My home doesn't have cold weather like this. I don't know anything about what the fish do when it's cold.

[Which would explain why she hasn't caught anything in a long long time.]

[Audio]

[fallintheriver]

And I don't know anything about fishing with a string.

Fish move slow when it's cold. If you're gonna lure them in, you've gotta move slow, too.

You'd probably be more successful if you could just hunt them like normal.

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

Like normal?

['Normal' for her wasn't normal for everyone else... She thought.]

[Audio]

[fallintheriver]

In the water. With your claws. If you have claws.

[He pauses for a second. Then:]

You probably don't have claws.

[Audio]

[lightwithin]

No.

I used to catch fish from the water with a net, but it's too cold here.

[Though, maybe not for someone with claws.]

Have you been swimming through the winter?

[Audio]

[fallintheriver]

Yeah. The fish are too deep right now for nets.

A bit. The water's fine, it's just too cold when I get out of it. Can't get dry fast enough, makes this body sick.

[70ftandcounting]

Oh! What...are you doing?

[lightwithin]

I'm fishing! Do you want to see?

[70ftandcounting]

Oh, yes! Yes I do!

[Video]

[lightwithin]

It takes only a touch to activate the video, and Kairi waves at her book, not at all sure how much Rapunzel will see.

Kairi's sitting cocooned in blankets, a pole hanging over the side of the boat and a slack piece of string dangling into the water.]

Heh, I haven't caught much.

[Video]

[70ftandcounting]

It looks like fun!

Have you caught anything at all?

[Video]

[lightwithin]

Sure!

[Kairi holds up a fish no bigger than her hand and grins sheepishly. It's so small, it must have been starving to take her bait.]

It's not good for food, heh. I'll probably use it for bait.

[Or at least, she doesn't know how to make a fish that small edible.]

It's fun, but well... It can be annoying.

[audio]

[morningfeather]

Need any help there? I haven't been fishing in a while and I don't want my skills to get rusty.

[audio]

[lightwithin]

Hmm... Well, I don't know about help.

[She grew up on an island. She should be good at this.

And back home, she was. The tools were just... different here. Who fished with worms?]

Heh, but I could use some company!

[audio]

[morningfeather]

Company I can definitely do. Fishing alone is nice, but isn't it always more fun when there's someone else with you?

[audio]

[lightwithin]

Sure!

[And well... Okay, maybe she could use the help.]

Heh, do you know how to make the line stronger?

[audio-->commentlog]

[morningfeather]

[Te Ata hmms thoughtfully.]

You could try shortening the line. Either that or trying folding the line so the weight rests on two lines instead of one.

[She arrives at the lake and looks around for Kairi.]

[audio-->commentlog]

[lightwithin]

Hm... I don't think I have enough line. Could you get some from the boat house?

[She's guessing that's Te Ata by the bank.]

I'll row back in.

Videoooo - as always, you're choice if Kairi can see her or not, or if that fluctuates

[bffpoltergeist]

I think it was, like, Ezra that said that, buuuuuut... I see that he told you that already. So, um... Hi! I don't think I've, like, met you yet and I try to, like, meet everyone, you know? I'm Liz!

[She waves, but her smile wilts a bit when she figures that Kairi might not even be able to see her currently. Being a ghost sucked sometimes. :(

BUT SHE PERSEVERES!!]

Did you, like, fish back home?

[Liz knows next to nothing about the outdoors, but she's interested and that counts, right?]

Videooo :D

[lightwithin]

Hello, I'm Kairi.

[Where is she? Is she behind the journal? Or is it broken?]

Sure! Heh, but I like fish here too.

[Wait...

Kairi giggles sheepishly]

I mean, I fished on the islands. But it was never this cold there. I didn't know fish could still live when it was this cold.

[bffpoltergeist]

Hi, Kairi! It's, like, nice to meet you!

[And Liz sounds completely genuine about this. She then purses her lips in thought, head tilting slightly to one side.]

Well, there are, like, some species that live in the cold, I think. Ummm... maybe... I think they, like, had that on National Geographic. Or they, like, hibernate...

[She trails off and then gives a shrug, returning the giggle with one in kind.]

I don't think it's like, just here at the Keep, though. I mean... people fish in, like, Alaska and that's the arctic... whales too.

[LOL... Liz tends to presume people know what she's talking about.]

[lightwithin]

The arctic?

[Kairi peers at her journal. Where is Liz?]

[bffpoltergeist]

[Liz nods without second thought.]

Yeah, the arctic... it's, like, way up north and super cold. Parts of, like, Alaska and Canada make it up, you know? I watched this special once where they, like, cut a big hole in the ice to go fishing in the winter.

It was pretty awesome, really! I think, like, it could be super cold, but super fun.

Did you have to cut through the ice?

[lightwithin]

No.

[She's feeling a little small. There are places where it's winter always?]

It melted.

Have you ever been to a place like that, where it's cold?