Just Another Day

"Now, what breed are you, dear?" Doctor Newbury asked as he scribbled notes onto a piece of parchment he had resting on a barrel.

"Sylvan," Shanku said as she balanced on a deck rail.

"Where are the Sylvans from?" Doctor Newbury asked. "Be careful there."

"North of here, the Nyre forest," Shanku said absently as she walked to the shrouds.

"Interesting. I've been there many times and never seen one of your kind before," remarked Doctor Newbury.

"We hide," Shanku stated with a finger in the air matter-of-factually as she dangled from the shrouds with her other hand.

"How did you end up down here?" asked Doctor Newbury.

"Left the Nyre, met Dai. Went to Wynfall, left in the spring. Met Rhett, came to port Tephras," said Shanku. She slipped her legs through the shrouds and then dangled upside down from her knees.

"Why?"

"Headrush... Er, Wanderlust," Shanku mumbled as the pressure built up in her head. She became too dizzy and inadvertently let go of the shrouds with her knees, which resulted in her crashed down to the deck.

"Perhaps that is enough for today..." Doctor Newbury said slowly.

"Owie..." came the weak reply. She shook her head and seemed recovered. She pointed a scrawny arm at the doctor. "So what are you doing out here, Doctor Newbury?"