The negotiate representative of the Koutao Merfolk began shouting and babbling again, gesticulating wildly, which left Richard looking totally bemused.
"Honorable Overlord, this Koutao Mermaid says that this Coral Beauty Sculpture is formed by a unique colloidal coral from an underground lake. Every thousand years, it's said that one is born from the holy well at the bottom of their lake..."
"A story I read in my youth from a popular travelogue by a human bard spoke of a tribe of mountain dwarfs, who lived in the Furnace Mountain Range of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. This tribe had once discovered a natural stalactite figure of a beauty while mining in the mountains. The realistic figure was taken as a miracle by this tribe and treasured greatly." the Koala Bear Shaman spoke, eyes twinkling like little green beans.
