>>5359182>>5358948>>5358947>Stalk the outskirts of the human shore that the human ship was heading to. Search the sea floor nearby. Knowing them you will find shipwrecks which may contain info (or treasure).Now that you're out of the deeps, able to actually tell the passage of time with passings of the sun and moon, you can better decide and judge things. So after about a week of lingering and listening to what you can learn of the languages about the region, you feel confident to follow your curiosity; knowing how their language has changed, now you want to see how human lives have changed. Always better to know your enemy after all.
So dragging your new pet human Emil along, you stalk nearer and nearer along the coast to see what you can find. Of course ships are increasingly more common, both large and small. Further signs of human habitation along the water, an insulting thing rather than as they should be, and keeping inland.
<span class="mu-b">"How dare they, a coastal community like that! Look! Look at them fishing! I'll destroy them yet, and drown their king!"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Only village, no king."</span>
A bit of a confusing exchange, as you peer out from the choppy waters at one of these human settlements, Emil sitting on your back and doing the same. Their ocean-dependence infuriates you and very much would you like to attack, or at least send a tidal wave their way. As much as you can understand from your human though, this is just a minor settlement of little importance?
<span class="mu-b">"But look there's... many buildings, and many people?"</span>
Over the next several days it's a rather sobering experience, as you find so many settlements up and down the coast, much more than you remember in your time and more substantial too; more people, more boats, more buildings, and bigger boats and buildings. Till eventually you come to a large bay, practically filled with boat traffic coming and going, enough to overwhelm you. And further still, what Emil deems to be a "city", a settlement of such size that it rivals even Atlantis... if not exceeds it!
<span class="mu-b">"...s-surely, this is the home of all humans in these lands then?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"No no, many more bigger."</span>
Sinking beneath the waters then and taking your human and your Atlantean statue with you, you drift to the bottom of the bay in a troubled mood. It seems you really had slumbered for a long time... perhaps too long. The humans have grown significantly, and developed to match, more than you can process compared with your memories and past experience with the land dwellers. You certainly aren't afraid or intimidated, but it's hard to make sense of how much things have changed, as you become more aware of the reason why you may have lost contact with your goddess. The world moved on without you, and perhaps she did too... or a worse though, perhaps the world moved on without her as well.
