Post by Elusion on Nov 16, 2021 20:31:40 GMT
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"I mean, if you really want to get me going about nudibranch respiratory systems..." Cory responded with a laugh. Like anyone, there were subjects that she could go on about at length - shipwrecks just didn't happen to be one of them. It was interesting to her that Morgan had grown up with her weird ghosty ability. Cory was the same way - her own ability was just something that she had always had, for as long as she could remember. She knew, though, that there were a lot of metas out there who didn't gain their abilities until puberty or until they ran into a radioactive sea slug or something to that effect.
"So... how was your family about the Grandpa thing? Were they cool with it, or was it awkward?" Kids at the age of five didn't tend to have much in the way of a personal filter, so Cory couldn't imagine tiny Morgan not just telling everyone around what she saw. Depending on how the family took it, that could have gone a lot of different ways.
And maybe Morgan didn't want to discuss it, so she let the question shift the conversation, with the understanding that Morgan could always shift it back if she wanted. "What, anglerfish? Yeah, those are real. I usually don't dive that deep, I tend to stick to the benthic zone, but when you get really down there into the aphotic zone, there's all sorts of weird stuff. Some of it you just gotta shake your head and wonder how it ever evolved, and why. Oceans are crazy. And... I guess I got into it because I grew up near Monterey Bay. Spent a lot of time snorkeling and diving as a kid, just wandering around underwater and seeing all the weird creatures down there. I still thought I'd be something normal when I grew up, like a dinosaur or a flying unicorn, but once I got into biology classes I got really interested in how all the different creatures lived and existed, and from then it was just a matter of following all that to its natural conclusion, which is... a mountain of student loan debt. But, you know, cool sea creatures. And I get to dive."
"So... how was your family about the Grandpa thing? Were they cool with it, or was it awkward?" Kids at the age of five didn't tend to have much in the way of a personal filter, so Cory couldn't imagine tiny Morgan not just telling everyone around what she saw. Depending on how the family took it, that could have gone a lot of different ways.
And maybe Morgan didn't want to discuss it, so she let the question shift the conversation, with the understanding that Morgan could always shift it back if she wanted. "What, anglerfish? Yeah, those are real. I usually don't dive that deep, I tend to stick to the benthic zone, but when you get really down there into the aphotic zone, there's all sorts of weird stuff. Some of it you just gotta shake your head and wonder how it ever evolved, and why. Oceans are crazy. And... I guess I got into it because I grew up near Monterey Bay. Spent a lot of time snorkeling and diving as a kid, just wandering around underwater and seeing all the weird creatures down there. I still thought I'd be something normal when I grew up, like a dinosaur or a flying unicorn, but once I got into biology classes I got really interested in how all the different creatures lived and existed, and from then it was just a matter of following all that to its natural conclusion, which is... a mountain of student loan debt. But, you know, cool sea creatures. And I get to dive."