The funny thing about siblings is that they always seem to make trouble for one another. In this particular instance, after docking, Zindr put her little sister to work helping the rest of the escort party unload the merchant vessel that the Deepseekers (and Edreina and Surai) had been hired to escort from Syliras to Alvadas. But, did Surai have to help? NO. He got to go fish off of the back of his ship. Yes, it was true that Surai would probably pick up one box, flex his muscles at some girl, then go gallivanting off for the rest of the day, meaning that Zindr and Edreina would have to go in search of him before the pod left the next morning. But still. It was not at all fair. He was, after all, a whole 3 years older than his 18 year old sister. The least he could do was be an adult.
When the day's duties were done, Edreina found herself taking a long catnap upon the Syna-warmed deck. The nap turned into a sleep and the Svefra woke to Leth's pale light, utterly re-energized. Nope... this would not do. Someone else needed to be awake. With creaking steps, Edreina made her way from her ship, across a few more casinors and other Deepseeker vessels until she came to the ship her siblings were staying on. After sneaking below deck, she walked over to Surai's hammock and, with a sound like an angry whale, toppled him from the hammock.
Seeing him yell and scramble about was enough to make Edreina's voice ring high as peals of laughter escaped before she could get herself under control. That, of course, woke a very grumpy Zindr. Her short, curly red hair was in disarray as she woke, giving her a wild appearance when paired with harsh, narrowed blue eyes. Instead of cursing them in rather creative ways, the oldest daughter of Illsa and Gnovak Whitewave simply asked what the petch they thought they were doing and why they had woken her.
Unphased by the daunting appearance of her sister, Edreina rattled off that she was bored, and that they should go exploring this beach because she had never ever been to this beach. All was silent for a tick, and then Surai groaned, cuffing his sister on the shoulder before attempting to crawl back into his hanging bed. Before the youngest sibling could return the blow, Zindr surprised her. "Sounds like fun, to me," she said evenly enough, shrugging and rolling from her hammock to the floor.
At this, Edreina commenced grinning and hopping in place until Zindr was awake enough to head above deck. "We should swim to shore instead of walking across decks," Zindr commented smartly, stepping to the edge of her ship. As she nearly always did, Edreina agreed with her big sister and moved to follow her. Just as the sisters were about to plunge into Laviku's cool embrace, there was a thud from below then the distinct wump-bump-ump-bump-wump of someone hurrying up to stairs to the deck. Lips pursed beneath his scruffy beard, Surai appeared and walked over to his sisters.
At their odd looks, he explained rather simply: "Outta be around if y'all get in trouble. Zindr's likely to fight first and ask questions later; your likely to just giggle at them. Y'all need someone smart enough to talk us out of a situation with these land-striders." Oh yes, that infallible Surai-logic and intelligence. What would they ever do without him...
Chimes later, the siblings moved from the water onto the beach. Edreina had to shake the water from her hair, Surai from his beard, but Zindr's smart crop had her drier than either rather quickly. With that, the trio of long, freckled-limbed and red-haired Svefra set off on an adventure to find Laviku-knew-what upon the beach. For Edreina, the discoveries were odd shells, differently colored here than other beaches he had visited. For Zindr, the beach was a place for her to practice her footwork. She darted and thrusted her body about as if in a battle with an unknown pirate, and the shifting, uneven sands gave her the chance to strengthen her ankles. For Surai, the treasure was-
Another redhead? Yes. His eyes were not deceiving him: there was another redheaded figure on this beach. Head cocked to the side, he got the attention of his siblings and motioned to the tumbling figure. After a tick, the trio agreed that they should make acquaintances with her... unless she was Leth-addled or just plain odd... Hm...
Either way, Zindr wanted to know how she was doing what she was doing, for it must require a great amount of strength and agility; Edreina found herself musing how much fun that appeared to be; Surai was just staring at the young woman rather openly. When she noticed them, if she noticed them, they would appear to be three pale, spotted beings with manes of fire and a stride like water itself despite their current setting. Surai and Zindr were nearly the same height, casting twin shadows upon the comparably diminutive Edreina. But, it was Edreina who bounded forward to greet the stranger, introducing herself and her siblings and asking what it was that she was doing out on the beach so late in the span of a single breath.
Luckily, she had the sense to speak in Common tongue instead of the faster, sharper, more melodic and utterly exotic Fratavan.