*is wandering along an unfamiliar shoreline, wondering where in Arda he's gotten himself to, when he finds a tide pool containing a type of anemone he's never seen before*
:o
*rifles through his pockets, pulls out a pad and pencil, and begins to sketch*
*mutters to himself as he makes extensive notes in the margins*
What an extraordinary fellow you are... orange basal disc, with the color fading up along the body and ending in violet at the tentacles... best guess two-and-a-half inches in height, four inches across at most... oh, and hungry it seems. Unfortunate sod of a minnow, eh? Lucky break for that shrimp, though--you there, sir, stay still while I get a look at those eyestalks...ETA: *all but runs down the coastline, still completely boggled by what Salmar told him*
*and by the fact that Salmar, a true-blue Maia, stopped to talk to him, a not-very-good biologist* :o*keeps his eyes peeled for anything resembling a
tower*
*spots one in short order and hurries up to the door, knocking just loud enough to be heard, but quietly enough so as to be polite*
*tries to put himself back in some kind of order while he waits for an answer--good Eru, he must look like some sort of ruffian after all this dashing about* :s