Neverwinter Forest Hold on to me, never let me go.

The other girl, clearly unsure but not nearly as much as the koi herself, took a little step back. This, obviously, was a good sign. Luli had never been particularly confident and now, so far from her home and surrounded by unfamiliar faces, she could not shake her crippling anxiety.

She was made curious, however, by the small voice that shared a name with her: Lili. Lili? The tiny seadragon blinked, surprised at the familiarity of it, and did not at once respond with words even after the invitation to offer her own was extended.

"I am Luli," she answered at last - after several lengthy, awkward moments. The common words sounded clunky to her, this child who favoured her mother's foreign tongue, but she knew enough of the common language to piece together an appropriate response.