As both the tantalizing smell and looks of the feminine stranger filled the mermaid's nose and eyes, Tai's brightly lit blue lure seemed to shine a little stronger and she had to swallow down a bit of excess saliva that had started to pool up in her mouth. Back a couple of months ago, or maybe even a year by now, when she first breached the surface, Taizee wasn't quite as understanding about the sentience, or perhaps more aptly put, the value of non-merfolk lives, and quite happily devoured all manner of people, be they prisoners forced to walk the plank, pearl divers who didn't swim quick enough, fishermen who held a bit too tightly onto their catch, or other humanoid creatures of the ocean. But she had learned, re-evaluated things and decided that she wanted to be a good person, but this girl really made it difficult to avoid cheating on her no innocents diet!<br/><br/>Flusteredly, Tai stood back up straight again and turned to fully face the newcomer, giving a wide, but strained smile as she contained herself. The scribblings in the dirt were little more than a circle with two crudely drawn houses on either side, symbolizing the two towns, a few trees signifying the forests they had passed, and a mountain representing the hills they could see in the distance, and a lot of various lines the mermaid had drawn all around, trying to imagine which way the original stranger had come from. Now that this woman had appeared as well, and Tai's mind was all scrambled up by her voracious instincts, the fighter was way over her head trying to make sense of it all, and just threw the stick away as she took Mika's hand, shaking her head as she replied, "N-no, it's absolutely fine! I-i uh, managed to figure out the map just fine myself, but thanks for the offer! And I am Taizee, ermh, a-a pleasure to ea- m-meet you Mika!"<br/><br/>As their handshake ended, Tai took a moment to collect herself, closing her eyes as she breathed calmly and deeply. With a low puff, she looked back to the well armoured human, giving of a much more kind and earnest smile than the first, before asking, "So, did you come from Solesport too? And are you by any chance going to the temple too?"