The new Sail glider was far more advanced than something I could come up with. As we slid some of our tendrils into the grips, we felt it pressing back, in it's movements and adaptation to the flow we could feel pressure and touch that gave us a slight idea of where we were going.

And we gripped each other tightly, trying to transmit the moetions needed, the details, as a rough flow exiting the hive caught us. And we learnt the meaning of speed.

Speed, flight, freedom. Fear. Swingng back and forth, vibrations coming from where are tendrils were caught by the flow.

Waters flowing past us, blind to our surrounding yet there is a power here. She Who Flies feels more capable than ever before, there is no need for efficiency this power overrides all needs for preservation!

And on my end, Indiscirbable Fear.

This flight, this freefall. This blindness to my destination. Where...

Pain.

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He Who Gathers Fish was examining his accomplishment, Flow-nets near and around the recent outflows to the hive. connected in a way that it attracts certain plants, and eventually tangles some fish. So he goes across his flow-nets, well, other's helped in their creation, but the materials used to grow them are acquired through what is grown on them. Self sufficient and a great addition to the hive.

And as he goes across his flow nets he encounters another, on the other side from with in the hive. He reaches out, and Ur-Im. Reaches and sends back:

Where am I?

The sending is not understood.

Where is he?

He has tangled in the flow-nets on the outside of the hive.

Is there another here? He was with she who flies.

He Who Gathers Fish shall untangle Ur-Im first. Then they shall look.

And so they did. And they found She Who Flies. In a heap, uninjured yet just as disoriented as Ur-Im.

Ur-Im reached for her, and before they left Ur-Im sent one thing. He does ore than gather fish, he expands flow-nets to gather fish. Mur, Who Gathers Fish and Understands Flow Nets. When He Who Gathers Fish is needed, he is He Who Gathers Fish. But there is a another role he fits into, and more that he does for the hive.

Ur-Im inquire, Does he accept being Mur who gather fish? For the implication of other roles.

He shall be He Who Gathers Fish, but those who know Mur, shall know him as Mur. It is an accomplishment for the hive. It needs be perpetuated.

And so they went on their ways.