The elves nodded their heads; with the teleporting Elmorel dead they had no way of returning home of their own accord, and this lack of options for part of their reason for wishing to supplicate to the victors, but they seemed happy enough to do anyway. Once the nymphs had healed Kass and Aria, they did as bidden, helping the elves onto the landed Volera. The elves seemed less shocked by the flying metal dragon than the two humans had, perhaps by dint of prior experiences with Elmorel or other elves steeped in magic and other wonders.<br/><br/>Aria shed the charcoal-gray-black garb she normally wore, leaving her armor, the tight undershirt which guarded against chafing and kept her breasts from bouncing, and her various trinkets of magic and bandoliers. She wasn't too concerned about getting the clothing wet for its own sake, but rather the drag and weight induced by cloth.<br/><br/>Although she presently lacked swimming magic like Kass's pearl, she was decent enough from her coastal upbringing and a few prior adventures, and their freedom-of-movement rings would allow them to fight reasonably underwater - even with slashing weapons; normally one was wise to stick to thrusting implements like spears and tridents and daggers when underwater.<br/><br/>Fortunately they found the lake far clearer once they got beneath the scummy surface - indeed, Aria found it beautiful, in a way, with the tropical sun filtering in nicely. It quickly grew deep away from the island, over a hundred feet, with a forest of weedy plants choking the lake bottom much like the underbrush of a forest.<br/><br/>Aria gestured toward the west - where just before the muddy floor began to rise again towards the western banks, there was a sort of gap; a long running and deep set 'shelf' or lip where the ground jutted inward. Aria swam deep enough to see right under the lip; gradually the wide recess grew narrower as it receeded, going so far back that its back was probably underneath the jungle rather than the lake, before it split into two narrower underwater caverns, each veeing away out of direct sightline.<br/><br/>Sitting upon an underwater at the crotch of the split, was a single female humanoid figure; naked, her skin a dusky golden-black hair, and her body cloaked by reptilian wings with black scales. Her sharp fingernails and teeth were quite visibly, for presently the winged woman was voraciously devouring some still-wriggling rainbow-colored fish.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Most wondrous items don't cover much skin (jewelry belts gloves etc., and if you wanted you could "trim" things like the phoenix cloak down to a choker that occupies the same magic item chakra, make gloves fingerless, bracers down to bracelets, etc.), armor can be glamered and/or with a high enough dex, bracers of armor can be as good or better. As far as I'm considered glamering can include "looks like no clothing" (i.e. no lower bound on what a "normal set of clothing" is.)<br/>