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cy(mbe)l[le|i]ne
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"Is something wrong with your arm?"

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Headshake.

She splays one hand and draws a curved line of webbing, between each of her fingers.  Flicks a sharp line coming off of each of her fingernails.

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He watches but does not seem to know what she's getting at.

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Big teethy smile.  Zigzag.

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"So I already kind of thought somebody cursed you but maybe I was wrong about exactly how?"

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Nod nod?

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"The magic on you feels weird, so I can't tell precisely what's been done, and the effects that are obvious are that you can't talk and that you - really don't like? moving around? Except drawing seems mostly fine? - but are you saying you - used to be - not a human at all?"

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Nod nod nod nod nod!

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"...were you one of those shark people?"

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Nod!!!  She - touching arms is fine, Zoyah said; Cyllene taps him there and there, on his left arm where breaks were.  And she won't touch his leg but she can point there and there and there.

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"...you've lost me again."

He was maybe not super with it when he had those injuries and it was months ago.

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...Okay she's going to try drawing again.

She scratches out a very simple human silhouette and points back and forth between it and him.  He understands this yes?

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"Human," he agrees.

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...Headshake.  Nod, headshake - she presses a finger into his arm and nods, and then points to herself and shakes her head decisively, points to a servant and does the same, points vaguely out of the room in several directions and shakes her head.  Hand back on his arm and nods.

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"Me, Cymbeline, in particular?"

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Nod nod nod!  (Cymbeline.  She's going to remember that, now.)

She folds a corner of the paper over the drawing of him, and starts adding curvy lines on top, denser and denser until it's almost all black.

On the original layer, next to the corner, she draws a second figure with fins and a tail.  Points between it and herself several times.

And then unflips the corner.

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"...you're saying you're the shark person who helped after the shipwreck a few months back?"

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Vigorous nodding!!

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"- well, welcome! Thank you very much! I was pretty sure at the time you couldn't understand us, is that new -"

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Nod!  She puts a hand over her throat.

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"...same time as you picked up the curses? Or the transformation was incomplete and you just can't make sound in air?"

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Shrug.

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"Not sure how it happened?"

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"I'd like to figure out how to uncurse you but I don't think I'll get far on information this thin, alas."

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