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She nodded;
"Hmm..I'm sure my mother will be thrilled to be a grandmother. Whenever it happens anyway." she said and then nodded.

"That's right, I've never seen a Mer type before."
Elisheva filed away the description for whenever she get a chance to meet one, then at least she would not be too surprised, or taken aback by a Soquili with only two legs.

"Well, I imagine they are more resilient than they look. Rain is an inconvenience, but certainly not anything more than that." she fell quiet as he indicated that they had arrived at their destination.

"Goodness.." she said, taking in the scenery as her hooves sunk slightly in the shifting sand.

"It's beautiful." she turned to him, her face lit up with the joy she felt at seeing such a pretty place.
"Thank you for bringing me here Barinthus."

"How could anyone not like it?" Elisheva said, flicking a stray strand of hair from her face as a slight breeze caught hold of her mane. She followed him to the water's edge, getting used to the strange sensation of walking on the sand, noting that it turned into an easier surface to walk on as it became damper by the water, and her ears flicking at the new sound it made underhoof.

"It's a lovely place. Peaceful." she nodded at him, watching him walk confidently into the water, and she stepped in a short way herself, stopping when the water was lapping just over her fetlocks, looking on as he..well, showed off for her, though she had asked to see him.

"Fishie!" she called after him, teasingly, but she was impressed, he certainly had a powerful grace in the water.

Elisheva tried to look serious as she nodded and said;
"No, no you're right, you're not a fishie at all." but she was smiling the whole time, until he dove back down again and then she called after him;
"Hey! Got me then.." she shook herself, flicking now wet pieces of mane from her face and shaking her wings out a bit as she retreated out of the water and back onto the sand. She wasn't really too annoyed though, it was amusing to watch Barinthus, he seemed so at ease..and so playful, she wondered how often he got to do things like this with all his duties.

"For me?" she asked, looking from him and his shiny, wet scales to the polished stone that he had laid before her hooves.

"Thank you..I will treasure it." she said, scooping it up with her own mouth, and pondering for a moment as to where to store it, before tucking it in the crook of her folded wing, wedging it between two of her larger feathers. Providing she didn't have to take flight in a hurry, it would be safe until she returned home and found a proper place for it.

"I..I don't have anything to give you. I mean..nothing tangible, or thoughtful like that. Just..my company I guess."

"But what if I felt I wanted to?" Elisheva said, poking out the tip of her tongue. She was rarely so playful with anyone outside of her family, but they were alone and no one could see her. She had an idea in that moment, and spread out the wing that wasn't holding his gift, turning and neatly extracting one of the darker feathers from her wing.

She stepped to his side with it in her mouth, reaching and tucking it in his short mane behind his ear, feeling incredibly bold and forward as she did so;
"And now you'll always remember you have a bird for a friend." she said, stepping back again.

"You swim wonderfully, but you already knew that." she said, smiling at him.
"And I'll happily fly for you. But another day."

She laughed a little, it was as good an excuse as any for seeing him again, as she realised that she would not only like to, but looked forward to it.

"Yes, they'll wonder what a fish is doing with feathers." Elisheva said, trying to keep a straight face. The more they talked, the less Princely he seemed, until she was occasionally wondering if that had just been a joke. But it would be a strange thing to say about oneself if not true..no, she was fairly sure he was just very relaxed. Was it merely the place, or her company?

"Well, they do dry again, but I'm not sure what salt water does if you immerse them too often. I've never..well, never really wondered about it."

She nodded as he spoke.
"True..but they get to meet on land, especially when a fish has legs." she nodded at Barinthus.

"And where would I find a Prince when he is not taking his ease?" she asked.
"Do I search all the water for you?"

"No I didn't. I would like to see those too one day." Elisheva said, shaking her head.
"Do they really fly?"

She wondered at his meaning when he spoke of saltwater, but maybe he meant nothing more than what he had actually said out loud. Instead she replied after he had finished speaking;
"The bird always comes to land when she has a real reason to. A bird will search the highest and the lowest places for something that has meaning to her." she paused, a flush on her cheeks. It was hard to proceed in a casual way when you wanted to let it be known that someone's company would always be welcome.

"Well..maybe you could find yourself more at leisure than at work. Then I could find you here, whenever I felt the pull of the sea and an urge for finned company."

"Well then, even if they don't really fly, that would be something to see. What kind of water do they live in?"
Elisheva could always fly over water, though she didn't often like to go a great distance from land in case she either tired or the weather turned bad. But if there was someone in the water below..

She nodded at his offering to share this place of his..well, it wasn't his but it was a place of retreat for him.

"Very kind of you. And..well I wouldn't want to interfere with your duties, but I would like to see you again. So you'll just have to come up for air more often." she chuckled.