That's what we want you all to think, so it looks like we're doing our job!

[ namu pauses at that, his lips pressing together a little. ]

Except me, I guess. I should really be erasing your memory right now!

[ he hums quietly and eventually presses his palms flat against the ledge and pushes up, lifting himself upward so that he can sit on the sand, still mostly submerged. his tail coils with him, half on the sandy bank and half drifting lazily in the water with him. the scales continue following the major lines of his body, iridescent in their coloring and shifting from blue to green. ]

But I don't want to. You feel...

[ he closes his eyes and cants his head to the side, a small smile on his face ]

...pure.