<div class="floatright">(http://bashooka.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fantasy-creatures-13.jpg)</div>There is a moment of hesitation from the creature as Lorelei speaks to it of freedom and it becomes still.  Then, with a splash, the bard begins to drag the boat.  The creature in the small boat sits patiently, watching Lorelei with a blank expression on it's face, apparently waiting.<br/><br/>As Lorelei moves further from the darkness of the illithid's world, she begins to learn and find more.  The water begins to warm slightly, no longer frigid.  Small fish dart around her, tails flicking and fins pushing, some of them familiar others odd and completely foreign.  These waters are not the ones she has become used to swimming.  As the beach becomes further away, it seems to just end.  One time over her shoulder the cliff of sand can be seen, the next, just more sea and sky.  Slowly she keeps swimming forward, the sun rising further up, bringing light and shining reflection to the ocean surface.<br/><br/>When she returns to speaking with the creature, it is sitting more or less precisely how it had been previously.  It turns and seems to brighten for a moment when Lorelei's attention returns to it, "Globbity goo would be fine, or another name if you wish it.  My previous master called my Slip."  It turns it's head to the side thoughtfully as Lorelei speaks and asks things, considering, pondering.  "I... I am a construct.  I was created by those squid-faced jerks, but now they are gone.  I require... a mental energy?  I could be bonded to another, perhaps."  It seems to consider and adds, "I need a grounding of some sort or I fade.  But perhaps I could be bonded to a place, the squid-faced jerks considered it, but my mind became too free.  But it would need to be a place where other minds exist."  She pauses again, thinking, considering, "I find myself... changing with you. Perhaps I feed off something in your thoughts which is why I require a bonding.  But already I find the idea of freedom more appealing, servitude... somehow distasteful."<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AbgiElxeQqE/VLfvNwpbHrI/AAAAAAAAAkU/xKNlPcjjw74/s1600/fantasy_beach.jpg)</div>As the boat continues, a thin sliver of land becomes visible.  It grows closer rapidly, faster than Lorelei is swimming, showing tall green mountains covered with trees.  "This place has few minds," the goo continues as she begins to see the approaching island.  "But you could leave it, through a portal like the one you entered.  Each island should have one, though getting from one to another may be difficult if where you come from isn't shattering."  She raises a hand, pointing between two of the mountains, "Through there.  I can feel your world drawing me."  The beach looks bright and open, though the trees around it darken further view.  Then after a moment, it asks aloud, "Lorelei, why did you bring me?"