Re: wallflowering in the ballroom: Harmonia It is.
He liked the feel of her, this biped who did not seem fully human. There was more to her than the skin she wore, though he could not begin to guess at her true nature; he assumed this, like so much else, would be revealed in time. He thought long on her question, and longer still on his answer, unsure, himself, how this had come about. In the intervening moments he found himself slithering toward her, coiling thoughtfully at the foot of her chair.
I slept, he said, in the ocean. It seemed a long time. When I woke, someone was with me. Adam. A boy. His head canted again, quizzical. Do you know him?