Today had been a fairly productive, if boring, day for him. Xibalba had spent the entire morning making his usual rounds, gliding from town to town to watch the inhabitants. He only hoped that something would happen someday, like a fire or disease...maybe even a mass murder. At least he would have something to think about then, distract himself from his laid plans for the destruction of all these little people... To Xi people were annoying. They went about their lives with hardly ever a spark of excitement and nothing to live for but their seemingly insignificant work. What was work worth if all it got you was food or a home? You could get those through far easier methods, he thought, and so he found most people to be quite irritating just with their lives being something he chanced upon seeing.
By now he had finished his usual flight pattern and was just wandering, going wherever the wind directed him as he looked down at the forest beneath. His home, his cave, was still a few miles away but he could cover the distance in a short amount of time so he was really in no hurry to go back and sit bored. He did that too often now, though, the days where he had no need to hunt were spent just being lazy. There were no battles to fight, no debates to take part in, and especially no company for the likes of him. He found himself thinking about this even though he enjoyed his life of solitude...why was that? Perhaps he was just bored with his unstimulating life, who wouldn't be?
Xi gave a loud yawn as he glided along and thought about what he should do today with all this free time. Go for a swim? That usually was an easy way to spend a good bit of his day. He turned then, going off to the left in search of a good place to dive. It wasn't long until he spotted a little body of water off in the distance and made a beeline for it. He took a few moments hovering above the trees as he calculated whether it was deep enough for him to dive outright, and once he was sure about it he let himself drop. Folding his wings as he fell, Xi straightened his body to make the impact less of a...splash.
Once he was in the water he opened his eyes, noticing how close he was to the bottom. He had been close to hitting his head, but it gave him a sort of small satisfaction that he'd just barely escaped something that would have been an embarrassment to his skills. He gave a sharp twist of his neck and kicked off to launch himself back upwards. Letting only his head break the surface, Xi snorted water from his nostrils and shook his head a bit as beads of water trickled in ragged paths around his scales. A quick survey of the shoreline afforded him with a nice view of what seemed to be a female human. A toy, he immediately thought, inspecting her from a distance.
When he was satisfied that she was there to stay and hadn't just stopped for a brief moment he dropped back down into the water. Shooting from his spot in the middle of this small body of water towards where she sat near the shore, Xi covered the distance in but a pregnant moment. He did not make a show of himself and simply walked from where his feet touched the bottom to cover the distance between them in just another few seconds. Grinning widely, he lowered his head to look at her now that he was considerably closer. "Why hello," he said bluntly as he moved another step closer. "...what's someone like you doing all the way out here, eh?"
