One Seashell - Action

[upthere]

[When Ariel burst out of the sea, she had expected to still be in the water. What she wasn't expected was to be stuck up in a tree.

At least, she thinks it's called a tree. Whatever it is, she's stuck in it, and the ground is pretty far beneath her.

She leans over to cling to the trunk of the tree and stares down, wondering how she got up here and how to get down and - and is that... is that the ground?

Then she... She's on the land?

Ariel slowly looks over to her legs. Legs. Legs! She can't help stretching one out, and the shock on her face turns into elation. It worked! The spell worked! Oh, she has to find Eric now! She -

She's so happy that she very nearly falls out of the tree, and she holds tightly to the trunk again. Yeaaah, she should. Probably not move much right now, even for Eric.

Maybe someone will come along...]

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[Action/Written]

[temzan]

[blah blah blah journal tutorial goes here, press x to start...]

[Judith, in her own journal, presents the following two lines and an in real life smile.]

My name is Judith; what's yours?

[Action/Written]

[upthere]

[Ariel looks at the two lines, then up at Judith with a smile of her own. She mouths the name: "Judith"... It had a nice flow to it.

Ah, now it's her turn. As if she just realized that, her eyes widen, and then she takes the pen and writes her answer.]

"My name is Ariel. I've never seen a book like this before in my life!"

[Action/Written]

[temzan]

[A smile. Good, they were getting somewhere now.]

I would be afraid if you had. [Ariel... nice to have a name to put to the girl's face now. It fits her, somehow.] You've just arrived here. The village isn't too far from this place - not at all far of a walk.