Cayden swims away momentarily and comes back with a handful of strawberries, munching them as he does his turn. He pries another urchin from the middle and places it on top, and gently prods an urchin that was trying to escape back into place.
Vē'Êtherñøth looks surprised, then turns a baleful glare to Cayden. "You're making it float."
“Me?” Cayden adopts an offended air, though his grin somewhat kills teh effect. “We’re playing with live sea urchins! They can move. If they want to float, they can float. It makes the game more fun!”
Vē'Êtherñøth sighs and takes the bottom piece. The tower remains floating, after she gives it a fierce glare.
Cayden adds one from the middle to the top. "Now," he says, giving one of the turtles a scratch on teh flap of skin under their neck, "Shall we keep going into enternity or do something else?"
Vē'Êtherñøth shrugs. "I could do this for eternity, but right now I want to boil something."
"Hmm…" Cayden swims away again, this time returning with a handful of potatoes. "Boiled potatoes are good!"
Vē'Êtherñøth shrugs, and then the water surrounding the potatos immediately evaporates. What's left is perfectly boiled potatos.
Cayden grabs some for himself and hands some to the turtles, munching happily. He tosses one to a giant pacific octopus that had snuck in, but it shies away from the potato like it's radioactive.
there's a thought. radioactive potatoes.
Vē'Êtherñøth chuckles, devouring the one the squid didn't want, and all the rest of the potatos. She goes to find a kraken to eat afterwords. She returns after a few minutes and belches loudly.
"The krakens here are amazing." she grins.
Indeed. As a matter of fact, you could go to Chernobyl and get them. And radioactive mushrooms.
Cayden grins. "The hydras are even better. They're gone now though. They'll come back in the winter. They migrate with the whales and their eggs are delicious."
Vē'Êtherñøth cuckles. "I could probably make one, honestly."
"Make one? Here?" Cayden grins. "I need to find Fathom first."
He swims away te again, this time leading back a giant squid. "Fathom lieks hydras. They make good playmates." The squid bobs her head in response, playing with the mast of a ship with her tentacles.
Vē'Êtherñøth laughs, then the water starts swirling, streaks of fire mixed in. Slowly, the outline of a hydra appears in the water, its spaghetti of heads twisting and darting around, catching fish and small giant squids. The hydra catches sight of Vē'Êtherñøth and gives a reptilian grin, nuzzling her. She laughs, then sends it to play with Fathom. "Don't eat him!"
Cayden claps his hands excitedly. "That was a cool trick. Can you bring anything else?" His eyes light up. "Bring the Methuselah tree! I like trees. The old ones are nice."
Vē'Êtherñøth tilts her head, and shrugs. "That's a holy tree. I can't."
Cayden shrugs. "Something else then!" He absentmindedly pulls out a ribbon eel from a crack in the ship's planks and twirls it around like a lasso.
Vē'Êtherñøth concentrates, and then the ocean boils once more. This time, a leviathan the size of Mt. Everest is churning the water nearby. "Is that okay?"
Cayden grins. "Yup! What should we call it? Fluffy or Bubbles?" He giggles. The ribbon eel, quite alarmed, slithers away discreetly.
"How about Flurry?" Vē'Êtherñøth muses.
Cayden nods. "Flurry Fluffy Bubbles the 1st! That's your name now," he says to the leviathon.
Vē'Êtherñøth grins. "Flurry! Come here!"
The leviathan comes over, and Vē'Êtherñøth starts petting it.
Cayden happily joins in petting it, giggling all the while. He brings Fathom over. 'Look! Another friend for you!"
When Fathom comes over, Spaghetti, (the hydra) comes too. He sniffs the leviathan and does a reptilian shrug. Vē'Êtherñøth laughs and scratches each of Spaghetti's heads.
Cayden laughs and shifts to his megalodon form, a 68-foot-long megalodon with bioluminescent blue spots along his back and a big toothy grin.
Fathom makes the squid equivalent of a squeal of delight and pats his head, then does the same for the leviathan.