Away with the waves | Joining

[LUMIA CIPHER.]

The sea. She was a strange, and incredibly fickle mistress. For the most part, Lumia had only observed the ocean from afar, not seeing a reason to get much closer, or dip beneath the waves. Of course, that had changed when she had done her blood division ceremony, but that had been out of necessity. There was a totem that she needed beneath the ocean sands, and she hadn't been willing to let getting wet stop her from getting it. The experience had been slightly harrowing, considering she had been forced to stay under longer than usual, but she had gotten through it. Ever since then, she had started to view the sea in a slightly different light. She wasn't sure why, but it was something about it that called her. Empowered her. Although it wasn't just the sea that did so. It was water in general, really. She felt herself drawn to it, and occasionally she found that when she was near it... it froze. Hardened into ice as a result of her presence, although she truthfully wasn't sure why. It had never done that before. Or at least, she had never noticed it doing that before. The discovery of such a power was sort of scary, but... it was exciting, too.

As days came and went, Lumia had decided that she was going to spend more time out near the sea, mostly as a method of testing herself. She would go and sit at the edge of the shore, letting the waves wash over her paws before she froze small chunks of it. Never anything all that impressive, but enough that it would catch attention as the frozen chunks drifted back out into the ocean – that is, if any of them stayed together. The Typhoon's hotter than average weather usually made it so that they melted before long, disappearing once more into the deep blue that they had come from. Mia found that she didn't really mind that all too much, though. She didn't want her powers to cause troubles for others, and while she didn't really think the chunks of ice were all that big of a deal, she didn't want them bumping into someone while they were swimming. One good surprise while out in the ocean could be the difference between life and death, after all. That was actually part of the reason why she usually practiced her new ice powers early in the morning – it ensured that there would be less people out in the water already, swimming or sailing. Plus, she found that she rather liked the peace and quiet that the morning brought, honestly.

This particular morning, though, things weren't so peaceful. For a moment, the feline's eyes had been closed, her sole focus being on the ocean as she practiced with her elementals. Her green gaze snapped open, though, when she heard the sound of someone desperately scrambling onto land a bit away, gasping and coughing water up from their lungs. She watched from afar for a moment, mostly too stunned to move. She wasn't used to people just crawling up from the ocean and onto their territory – especially unfamiliar ones. She would've shrugged it off if it was just a Typhooner that had gotten in over their head while swimming, but that didn't seem to be the case here. That alone became particularly obvious when she saw the wounds that covered Wavepool, making it quite obvious that she had been the victim of a crash. That was enough to break the young Cipher from her trance, since she didn't want to just leave someone alone who was in obvious need of help. Especially when they started trekking further up onto the beach.

Shaking water from her golden paws, the privateer rushed over to where Wavepool was, now joined by Vayne. Mia was a bit breathless as she spoke, her own eyes still a bit wide, "Uh... hey there. I saw you crawl up from the ocean... I hope you're kot too badly hurt." She then jerked her head in her niece's direction, explaining plainly, "Roan is our medic around here. He can help you out with the injuries you've sustained... do you have a name, miss?" She obviously wasn't too worried about the other "trespassing" on The Typhoon's territory. It wasn't as if Wavepool could've controlled where she ended up crash-landing, after all. Still, she wanted to learn the other's name, if only so that she didn't have to just call the other feline "miss" while speaking to her, or Roan while he was treating her.

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