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[ There's a perfectly ordinary hallway that branches off from one of the main, leading to a downward staircase. If one were to walk down, they would notice how the walls and stairs themselves are decaying, changing as the steps go down from the regular floors and ordinary wood to stone. It leads down, not too far, to a long series of underground tunnels. Mostly man-made, but with natural formations as well. The sound of water running can be heard to the left and loud, scraping footsteps to the right. Which direction would you take? ]

[ooc: open post because I'm bored. Choose anyone. ~~From KH, anyway.~~]

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I guess that would be hard. Can't say I've ever seen one of your kind climb like that, either. But I've had plenty of snakes fall out of trees onto my head.

[A lot of times they ended up dinner.]

I do not do it very often. Have you ssseen many naga in your life?

[actually, uncoils to move closer to Aden, to get a better scent from him in the hopes of placing why he's so familiar.]

More than most, I guess. See, I was born in the dressing room, at some point in this time's future. I've lived here my whole life.

[He shrugs.]

Naga have always been a constant, I guess.

Oh. I have not ssseen another in my time here. I do think I have ssseen a mucssh younger versssion of you, though.

[now he's figured it out. :D]

Ohhh. Yeah, probably. He's pretty friendly.

[Not to say he isn't at this age.]

I sssaw him with hisss mother, the firsst day I wasss here.

[yeah, he seems pretty friendly so far, and seems to be pretty comfortable around him, both of which are bonuses, and things he still isn't used to.]

[He looks a little surprised, then doesn't seem to at all, and just grins.]

Lucky you. How much did he want to play?

He wasss quite interesssted in my teeth, and the ssoundss I could make.

[His grin just got even bigger.]

Sounds about right. I wasn't really interested in human speech when I was a kid.

[he grins too, though of course his is much more alarming (but probably not to Aden).]

It iss nicsse to meet you when you can make sssoundss I can undersstand. I do not recall your name, however.

[He could not be less afraid if he tried.]

Aden. And you're an Axel?

[he nods bit, looking slightly sheepish.]

I am ssstill getting ussed to people knowing my name on sssight.

[Oh man he looks so amused, and he almost feels bad for it. Almost.]

Never had that problem myself. You'll get used to it.

I sssuppose.

[he recurls himself, eyeing the water in the hopes of something to eat.]

Sso were you invesstigating anything in particular, down here?

[~~orly.~~ He shrugs.]

Nothing in particular. Just trying to figure out what kind of things live down here.

Batss? Perhapss ssome inssectss, and I wass rather hoping for ssome fissh to eat.

[he's been in caves before, but it wasn't a regular thing, and every time he was probably either hiding or single-mindedly searching for food for his tribe.]

Plenty of insects and bats. Dunno about fish, though.

[He looks curious himself now, eying the water below him with interest. Don't worry, he's not about to jump in or anything.]

I do not think it isss deep enough for anything of any ssize, no. I ssuppose I will jusst have to return to my and thaw ssomething to eat.

[he looks pretty sad about this. it takes time, and while he was never terribly happy about eating live or at least freshly dead prey, it IS a thoroughly different experience from waiting a few hours for a hunk of frozen meat to thaw out. he kind of misses the old way.]

You could try the ocean.

[Plenty of fish in the sea!]

Why are you thawing things out?

My friend Nami told me the firsst day I wasss here that mosst people would not look kindly on my eating humanss, and that nothing like that would sstay in my belly anyway. He helped me work out a sssysstem for getting fressh meat, but it sstayss frozen outsside until I need it.

[hmm, he's never really gone to the ocean. he'd probably like it.]

Well, no, if you kill anyone then someone is gonna kill you back.

[Uncle Nami's cool like that.]

And I mean, it's super easy to get meat around here if you just go to the stores, but but there's wild animals that shouldn't vanish once they're dead. I know there's fish in the ocean. Huge ones. Big enough to swallow me whole.

[nodnod, re: getting killed and also wild animals.]

I will ssstart hunting again when it iss not sso cold. I have never sseen a fissh that large, but I believe you. I have sseen many thingss here that I had not ssseen before.

Oh, good. I could've proved it if you hadn't. Kept the eyes preserved in a jar once I busted out of that thing.

[He did. Kira helped! Sort of. He hadn't thought about the cold, but it makes a hell of a lot of sense.]

Huuuuh. Where do you live?

Over in Radiant Garden. I had been consssidering moving ssomewhere around here to be clossser to the few people I know, but I think it would be too mucssh trouble, I am sso sssettled there...

[go away with your eyeballs. humans are so weird. :( ]

Why would it be trouble? Do you have a lot of stuff to move?

[He's going to start climbing down the wall. Very, very carefully.]