[center][h3][color=a0410d]Audrey Springer[/color][/h3][/center][hr]

Perhaps David was just more trusting than Audrey(this was not difficult to achieve), and he welcomed the Princess. Aud watched, warily at first, but her eyes widening as the pair rotated, the glow of the Song moving from Rulania to David. She didn't know David well at all, at least when the song started. But by the end of it, she heard his voice, and it felt [i]right[/i]. 

Audrey slipped out of her jacket. It was still wet from the pool, as were her feet in her boots, but she found that it didn't bother her as much as she expected. Perhaps it was her new amphibious nature. Rulania had said that their new forms were truer to their nature, and she had become a poisonous frog. She wrinkled her nose as she looked at her arms, wondering what that said about her. Was she such a caustic bitch that she needed warning coloration? She had a temper, she knew, but she had [i]thought[/i] it was always in response to injustice and unfairness. But then she had yelled at Eckehart, the one who had come to help guide them in this strange land. Who had only been kind and patient, even bearing her diatribe. 

She didn't know what to think of it all, but she could hear the rightness in David's song, and she yearned for the voice, even as its compulsion had ceased to hold her. As the dance wrapped up, she bent down and undid her boot laces, prying the wet leather off, and then peeling away her socks. Her feet had changed, though only a little. They were a little longer, but more slender and flexible. Her toes had been curled at the ends of her boots and she'd barely noticed. Leaving her boots, socks, and jacket in a neat pile, she stood again to address the Princess once more. 

[color=a0410d]"Ya gotta understand that this is strange for us. I've lived sixteen years as one thing, and then I get dragged here and I'm suddenly something else. But,"[/color] she held out her hand again, taking a step toward Rulania, [color=a0410d]"I'm willing to try to understand. If you'll help us."[/color]