Serene through the bubbly blue and green

[victory_howl]

Characters: Amaterasu, Open
Settings: Floor 10
Format: I'll be prose, you be whichever
Summary: Amaterasu explores her first glassless aquarium
Warnings: N/A

Ammy padded through the giant room, peering quizzically at the fish inside the tanks of water. Well, 'tanks', anyway, since they didn't seem to be held in by glass of any kind. What was making the water keep its shape, anyway? She approached a large enclosure, one filled with brightly-colored angelfish, corals, and anemones, then stuck her snout up against the wall of water -- only to end up shoving her head into the water, with no resistance at all.

She snapped at a passing fish; it reacted as any other would, swimming frantically away from her jaws in a panic and burrowing itself in between the corals to hide. Puzzled, she drew her head back out out and shook the water vigorously from her fur, sending droplets flying in a wide arc.

Weeeird.

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[legatus]

Shinji loved dogs. Perhaps passing by here was simply fate, but he quickly noticed the canine-like entity inside that didn't look like a monster. Could it be...

No, definitely not Koromaru. The color looked the same, and it made him a little sad that the dog wasn't here with them. And, well neither did this look completely like a dog, as it was large enough to be a wolf. There was a regal feeling about the way it moved too, and he couldn't explain quite why. Regardless, the iron-stone facade that he used with...well nearly everyone was dropped and he bent his knees to get a better look at her.

"Hey. You okay?" His voice was usually soft and kind-hearted, something few others would ever get to bare witness to.

[victory_howl]

Ammy made her way over to Shinji, openly curious. It was rare for people to actually go out of their way to show interest in her. Usually, she just caught them in the middle of a day's work or complaining about their missing laundry line or something.

But he seemed nice enough. She placed one of her front paws on his foot and barked in reply.

[legatus]

He didn't understand a word he said of course - after all he wasn't Aigis - but Shinji was surprisingly knowledgeable about canines in general and Koromaru had been very expressive enough for him to catch on what he wanted. Besides, no monster in the tower would have been that bold.

He grinned back (once he was sure no one else saw that). There was no attempt at petting her; after all if they were in the tower, there had to be a reason, and they might take it as an offense.

"D'you have a name?"

[victory_howl]

Ammy barked again, but she wasn't holding out much hope. In the absence of anyone to translate for her, she'd just have to resign herself to whatever nickname Shinji thought up. Hopefully, it was more imaginative than 'Dog'. Seriously, what was up with that?

She bumped his leg with the side of her head. Seemed like this guy liked dogs, which was cool with her. Maybe she'd get some snacks out of him.