Zone D -- The Foam

[The Future Warrior]

"Well, my li'l blue friend, it's quite funny you should be askin' about that," Gamzee said. "'Cause you see, that's all about—"

The eccentric troll-clown was cut off mid-sentence as he disappeared with a flash of light and a sudden POP.

Leaving Graowr, of course, to just float there on the surface of the muddy water. "...uh. G-Gamzee? Waah!" And as she then went to look around, she flailed and splashed down into the water. She splashed around in the dark, murky liquid for a handful of seconds before getting herself righted and remembering which was up and which was down. Feet touched down on the ground, and she pushed up to get her head above water. "Bwah!" She spit out a mouthful of dirt-colored water, shaking her head to create a shower of droplets in every which way, flying from her head, scarf and tentacles. Then she touched down again on the bottom, the water up past her mouth by now. If she'd had a nose, she imagined it would have been sucking in water with every breath.

"This sucks!" she complained, loudly. "Gamzee! Where'd you go?!"

When no response was forthcoming, she shuffled about in the water, looking this way and that. Back where she'd come from, where she'd been heading, and everywhere else. "Aw, maaaan..." She sank a little into the water, letting out a long, dejected sigh, a stream of bubbles blowing up to the surface. She'd just made a new friend, and then lost him all of a sudden. Didn't even have the forethought to get his dataverse handle or contact information or anything.

She wallowed in her sadness for a few more minutes, before she finally got back underway. Sad as it was, there was a safehouse she was getting to. It'd be nice to get out of this water for a while.

...of course, as she went, she caught sight of something else. Someone else, maybe, just floating along on the water's surface. "Oh? What's that?" She perked up immediately, her curiosity making her poor mood disappear in a flash. She hurried forward, splashing through the water and kicking up clouds of mud and silt as she went. "Hey! Hey, wait up!" she called out, not really thinking about 'floating makes you move as fast as the current, you don't have much choice in how fast you go'.

She got closer, and saw it was indeed a person. Who didn't seem to be doing so well. "Ugh...h-hey, there," he said warily.

"You don't look so good," Graowr said bluntly, hopping up out of the water to do so.

"Yeah, I, uh...had a rough landing, I guess. Think I messed up my leg..."

"Oh. That's not good." She blinked once. "....oh, hey! I have an idea! There's a safehouse just a little ways off, there should be some supplies and stuff in there!"

"Yeah, that's where I was headed," he admits. "But I, uh...think I pulled something. Can't really manage to walk. Not sure if...the current'll get me there."

"That's bad." Graowr's simple insight was once again right on the money. She went quiet for a moment, jut slowly shuffling along to keep pace with the floating man's slow movement through the flooded area. Eventually, she got an idea and piped up with it. "Hey! I have an idea! I could carry you! Or, you know, pull you along through the water! I was heading there, anyway!"

"Oh, well...you don't have to do that, I'll--" he started, but got cut off by the affable azure abomination.

"Hey, hey, don't worry! You could use the help, and you might not get there otherwise! Come on!" And she ducked out of sight under the water, coming up again underneath him and lifting him out of the water, just enough to get her eyes above the surface again. Most of his weight was still floating on the water, to help with his leg much as she could, as she started off on her way for the safehouse again.

"Well, uh...if you insist, I guess..."

Graowr and Isaac Clarke: Allied
Moving from D15 to D14