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Both twins exclaimed in surprise and didn't seem to particularly enjoy being in the air. Finn especially kept his eyes closed and clung tightly to Sylvia so he wouldn't fall.

Sylvia woops as she starts flying forward. She looks down at Teagan.

"Can you give me directions, though? I honestly don't know where to go."

Teagan sighed and started trying his best to direct Sylvia. He hadn't ever gone anywhere in the air before, after all. Finn kept his eyes shut the whole way.

Sylvia smiles as they reach their first destination: the aquarium.

She swoops down to a foot above the ground and lets the twins go, then lands herself.

Finn threw out his arms to keep himself from falling, feeling a little queasy. Teagan was out of breath, but otherwise seemed okay. "Alright, we're here. Let's head in. "

Sylvia squeals and nods, pushing open the doors.

She looks around; even the entrance was amazing to her, with its colorful designs and the small fish in the ceiling aquarium.

Finn and Teagan followed close behind her, looking around as well. They'd been to the aquarium before, of course, so it wasn't nearly as exciting for them.

When Sylvia found the shark exhibits, she froze, then squealed.

"Ohmygod! I love them! They're so beautiful!"

"The sharks? They're kinda dangerous." Finn replied, seeming to have recovered from the whole flying ordeal. "They're neat though, I guess."

"I'm dangerous, too, and yet I'm pretty damn cute. Beauty is merely a cover for great violence." Sylvia says philosophically.

Finn shrugged. "I guess so. I like the rays, personally." He looked up at the manta rays swimming around in the same tank.

Sylvia watches the rays for a moment.

"Most people forget that these animals are all capable of killing us. The sharks with their teeth, the rays with their tails."

"Well, manta rays don't have barbs I don't think. Just the stingrays." Finn shrugged and moved onto another room.

Sylvia shrugs too.

"I wouldn't know. All I know is that any of these creatures are perfectly capable of killing us."

She follows after Finn.

"Most of them, yeah. I don't think this guy could do very much." Finn looked into a tank full of little fluorescent fish.

Sylvia grins.

"No, dis liddle fishie is completely harmless, isn't he," she says, cooing at the fish.

Finn hummed thoughtfully and looked over his shoulder at some fish behind him. Teagan yawned, quietly looking around. "We'll see what's your favorite at the end."

Sylvia smiles at Teagan.

"It'll still be the sharks."

"We'll see. They have some pretty cool stuff here." Finn smiled softly and led the way forward into a room with a touch pool.

Sylvia shrugs, and then looks at the touching pool like a cat watching a cucumber roll across the floor: hair frizzing up like a cat's tail, eyes narrowed, like the very presence of the touching pool was offensive and scary to her.

Finn and Teagan watched her with a bewildered expression as the attendant explained in the background to use a two finger touch and be gentle with the animals in the pool. "You good? It's just a touch pool. You can touch the animals in there."

Sylvia glares harder at the pool, hair frizzing up more.

"I don't like it."

"Well, don't do it then. It's not mandatory." Finn shrugged and he and Teagan headed over to the touch pool.

Sylvia lingers in the background, her conflicting emotions of "wanting to stay with these fluffy bois because they're nice and they feed her" and "fear of the open water and the weird creatures in it" keeping her rocking back and forth.

The first emotion wins, and she quietly walks up behind the boys, watching, her hair frizzing out to the point where her head looked like a brown cottonball.

Finn looked over his shoulder at Sylvia and stepped to one side so she had space to join them at the touch pool if she wanted to. He and Teagan bantered about something, although they didn't already to be fighting for once, and Finn reached into the pool to gently touch a horseshoe crab slowly making its way across the bottom. Teagan seemed more interested in the starfish stuck on the side of the pool.