ATLOP: Lessons in Water

Announcing A Royal

Rip my wifi connection, and my health. This is late due to chronic pain and magical anti-wifi powers <3

Thank you my darling Izzy for helping with dialogue and Fezzik for betaing <3

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I sat still as the hair stylist carefully brushed out my hair, mumbling about how it was at such an in-between length now.

"Please stay still, Perseus-aia. I cannot do your hair properly if you keep squirming."

I forced myself to still again.

"You never can sit still, can you, Persi-aia?"

I huffed at Fetu's comment. I would have turned to glare at him, but I didn't think the hair stylist would be pleased.

"What's this?" Lagi asked, continuing the exploration of my room that he'd been doing since he entered. The hair stylist mumbled something about them being horribly informal in how they spoke to me.

I tried to look over without moving my head and caught a glimpse of the black fabric that made up the veil Annabeth bought me.

"Oh, that's a veil."

He squinted at it and Fetu frowned, "Uh, that's not a veil? It's definitely not made of jellyfish at all."

"Land dwellers don't make veils from Jellyfish, they make them from cloth."

"Why do they do that?" Fetu wondered. "Kelp cloth is super expensive."

I blinked, oh yeah, the clothes under the sea were all made from kelp cloth (which was the softest thing ever). Kelp cloth was really hard to make and very expensive.

"Well," I started. "On land they use animal fur like sheep, or a different plant material, like cotton. They don't even know how to make kelp cloth I don't think."

They both looked baffled.

"They use animal fur?" Lagi asked

I nodded, trying to think back to that science class where we talked about it. "Yeah, the animals that they use the fur of usually need to be shaved because of health reasons, so it helps the animals to be shaved, and we use the fur for clothing."

"How strange," Fetu said, peering at the cloth Lagi was still holding.

"So this is made out of animal fur?" Lagi asked.

"Nope," I said cheerfully. "That's made from silk!"

"What's silk?" Lagi said with a frown.

"Oh," I thought, was it spiders? Yeah, I thought so. What else made silk? "They're, I think, made of spider silk. So they collect a whole bunch and make it fabric."

Fetu blinked slowly, "Spiders?"

"Those uh, eight legged... um... creepy crawling death bringers?" I faltered. "...that's what Annabeth calls them."

They both stared blankly, "Do you mean... Arachnids?"

"Yeah! That's the... the... what's the word... the official... book lookup term..."

Fetu and Lagi stared blankly.

"You know," I frowned. "The... the term for... if you do things and it's just doing things you have to write it down for it to be... Science!! It's the scientific term!"