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Jae felt as though he asked the wrong thing, and tensed when Alexis went still. It wasn't fear, but the worry he poked at something far too personal. He shouldn't ask questions without thinking of the impact they might have, all because he was curious. The topic wasn't wanted, so Jae tried to navigate away from it.

"Um, is making mist all you can do?" He winced at his wording, and tried again, "I mean, uh, I mean do you have other powers?" That wasn't much better. Right now, Jae wished he had the easy conversational skills of his friends.
 

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Jae had hit the nail right on the head. Alexis wasn't interested in talking about the rest of his family at all. Not with him, at least.

From within the mist Alexis growled and then suddenly the entire cloud dispersed. He swam directly at Jae but stopped a few feet away from his face. "I could sting you and make you paralyzed. Is that what you want to hear? Can't tell if you're trying to size me up or just really bad at talking."

After a moment he threw him a lifeline though. "How about you tell me what you like to do besides swimming?"
 

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The cloud dispersed and once again Jae found himself face to face once again with an angry wyvern. Why was he so bad at talking! Even Alexis said as much. Jae shook his head, as the last thing he wanted was to get into a fight. So, when the lifeline was thrown he gladly took it.

"Um, I like to fish." Jae said, and remembered that his hobbies was his weakest subject. Though Jae enjoyed his hobbies, he was painfully aware of how boring they sounded to other people. "And, um, I'm an actor in the school drama club." Which was frankly his best answer for the question.
 

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Fishing and drama. That was apparently what they had to work with.

And although Alexis was well versed in real life fucking drama, he wasn't really into plays and shit. Talk about a waste of energy. "I never got the point of acting. Pretending to be something you're not just to make other people happy is weird."

Oh the irony. Alexis was really good at badly acting. Except in his case the production was most of his life.

"Fishing though. I can get behind that. At least fishing leads to swimming and food. Sometimes my cousin and I do it together so we chase whole schools of fish." He sneered proudly at that with his great, disgusting wyvern mouth. Lashing his long tongue out to lick his lips hungrily.
 

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Acting wasn't weird! Jae held back his protest, but couldn't stop the pout that came over his face. Performing in plays was thrilling and took skill and practice to get right. "I don't act just to make people happy." He said, unable to not say anything in his defense. "I act because I like it and its challenging." There was more he could say, but he had a feeling it would be lost to Alexis.

Besides, it seemed they had some common ground. "I fish with rods and lures. I don't think I've ever tried fishing in this form." It would be easy, upon thinking about it. With his speed and ability to locate and track the fish all it would take would be to get close and give the fish a zap. Though, then he'd have a dead fish. . . Jae would much rather buy the fish already dead. "In-um, when I was a kid, the city I lived by held fishing festivals all the time."
 

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Alexis couldn't really roll his eyes in wyvern form. It just wasn't the same effect. But he could suddenly flop backwards and float more or less on his back for a bit. "Whatever. Don't bother trying to convince me about the acting junk. Plenty of shit people like here sounds dumb to me."

Slowly he drifted around, staying close enough to keep talking. "It's not as good without snapping them up in your teeth. I guess you don't like bloodshed and fighting then? Seems like lots of people who don't kill their food can't handle the blood."

"What do you even do at a fish festival? Closest thing we did was... doing raids on the fishing fleets. Dumbasses."
 

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Acting junk! Jae's fins flared, displaying the emotion he kept off his face. Must Alexis be so dismissive of him and his hobbies? And why was he getting so worked up about it? What did it matter what Alexis thought? The wyvern was a jerk and Jae shouldn't take what he said so seriously. As if to do just that, Jae forced his fins to relax, and mirror Alexis by floating on his back.

"I'm not fond of fighting, no." Jae said, he didn't mind blood. . . but he didn't want to be the person to do the killing. "Raids on. . . you attacked fishing ships?!" Just where did Alexis live before the island? Jae decided he didn't want an answer for that, so he answered Alexis' earlier question, "At fishing festivals you fish. Usually there's prizes for catching the biggest fist, or catching the most. Then there's food, lots of food. Games for those who don't want to fish and sometimes a parade."
 

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He didn't catch the angered fin display, missing it as he floated on his back and reminded himself mentally to not be a complete ass. "Listen, you don't wanna know what I mean about the fishing ships. And I don't wanna talk about my past or my family anyway." His tail lashed angrily into the water making a splash. But he was being careful not to hit Jae with it. Accidentally paralyzing them sounded like a recipe for disaster.

"Lots of food doesn't sound bad. What kind of prizes though? Ribbons and weird junk for your wall or actual useful things?" He didn't really know what a parade was so he ignored that part.
 

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Jae agreed with Alexis on the boats, and happily avoided that topic. If the angry tail swishing was anything to go by. . . that wouldn't be a fun topic for either of them. "The food is great, many people set up food stalls and make all kinds of festival foods. Some would bring back older recipes and treats." Jae always hunted down the dalgona stall and buy at least two sticks. Festivals were the only time his aunt and uncle let him go crazy with sweets.

Talking of festivals perked Jae up, happy to recall memories of Korea. "The adults would get prizes like awards or certificates to businesses, but the kids would get toys or cards to sweets shops." Jae never won first place, but then he never tried to win, and was happy to fish beside his aunt and uncle. "It was fun,"
 

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Alexis let himself calm down, focusing on the water around him to push out the thoughts of family and his past life. Mostly. And then he began making small arches out of the water around him to further clear his mind.

"That sounds ok I guess. Sounds pretty different than the festivals here. Did you ever win anything... actually don't answer that. It doesn't really matter if you won anything or not. It does seem pretty tame though." He replied, trying not to sound overly dismissive or snippy. He just was more into more active things than a day slowly fishing with a rod or whatever.
 
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