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Miffix sat with Ninja at the pier, a bit downhearted. Both were about to go fishing when Miffix had to get offline and do chores. She hadn't been able to come back on until the end of the Gaian day, but Ninja didn't seem to mind now. He was reeling in fish and smiling.

Miffix kept fishing, not catching anything, but often looked at Ninja's catches to see what he got, and Ninja got some interesting catches. She saw a fish she'd never seen before that had a yellow puppy-eyed like lip, and blue stripes on its back. They were either pink, blue, or green, but he caught mostly pinks and blues. She watched with wonder as a rainbow trout was reeled in and placed in the bucket by the happy fisher next to her. "Wowie..." she gasped. "What are those?" she asked with a bursting curiousity.

"This?" he picked up the rainbow trout in his fisher's glove. "It's a rainbow trout. This one is a warm version. The other one, frozen, is worth more money," Ninja explained but then Miffix pointed at the other fish he'd just caught.

"What's that one? The one with the stripes on its back?" she inquired, her eyes wide with curiosity. Ninja stared at her eyes, surprised at how into this she was.

"It's a seedkin," he said after staring into her big blue eyes. She nodded and her eyes turned from the childish wonder look to their calm and pleased expression.

"I wanna catch one!" Miffix promised and cast her rod, but all that came in was an old tire. Miffix's hopes sunk. "But... all I catch at this port is garbage... and nothing..." her shoulders sank. Ninja put a hand on them.

"Hey try this. You know how you said you caught nothing? Wasn't the rod jiggling too fast, like it was trying shooting to the left and right?" Miffix nodded. "That's a fish!" he told her. "Fish here move much faster than garbage, unlike Bass'Ken where you can't tell the difference. You can tell when it's a fish here! So when the rod wheels to the right, pull it to the left, and vice versa! Try," Ninja offered as she cast and hooked something.

"This is a fish alright!" Ninja said and guided the rod by clamping his hands on top of Miffix's while she reeled it in. And the next thing Miffix knew there was a shiny pink seedkin sitting on her lap, staring up at her with big black eyes as it flopped in her hands. Miffix couldn't be happier; her eyes were shining as she set it in the bucket. "Those are worth 7 gold," Ninja told her but not sooner than he was done he was hugged by Miffix.

"YAY!!! My first seedkin!! I'm so happy!!" she shouted out happily. "Yee!!" a kitten's smile decorated her face while Ninja smiled at her.

"You're pretty easily pleased!" he laughed.

"MY FIRST SEEDKIN!"

"Well," Ninja gave a smirk and raised his left eyebrow ever so slightly, "you better watch out or it'll jump back in the water," a look of fear came upon Miffix's face as her eyes widened and she checked her little seedkin.

"NO!" Miffix panicked. "But I caught 'im! I wanna keep 'im!!" she panicked again. "Are you sure!?"

"Of course not!" Ninja laughed hard, his laugh being the type that was happy and boyish, and fell backwards chuckling. She actually fell for it! The girl whacked him with her rod.

"Meanie!!" her face was pouty and then she laughed too. "But then why am I laughing?" she gave up answering that question and spent the rest of the night having a good time fishing with Ninja. And to the great relief of Miffix, she found that seedkins never do jump out of the bucket.