[ Once she gets her bearings in the underwater kingdom, Makoto sets to work — if only to keep herself occupied from worrying about her missing friends. Naturally, that means investigating the princess, which leads her to her favorite restaurant where she decides to pick up a few shifts in the kitchen. It seems prudent to have a little extra spending cash, and so she puts on her proverbial apron and gets to work.

It's certainly a unique experience, assembling foot underwater like this, and there's no real cooking involved — at least, not what she's used to. But soon enough she's got the flow of things down, and good thing, too, because it's just getting busier and busier in here. ]

Oh, could you send the seaweed wrap over this way? Those shells need to be cleaned out, as well.

[ Did she sort of just take the reins? Maybe. ]

[ Of course, Makoto can be found most frequently in the palace's library, pouring over numerous tomes and combing them for any sort of useful information. There's a lot of interesting bits to be sure, and honestly, she could spend weeks in here just gorging herself on the fascinating history of this world, but that's not going to help them find the missing princess.

She's found a particularly intriguing book that speaks of men in Akvos' distant past, and she can barely keep her nose out of it, even as she swims back to the towards the shelves to pick out a few new titles. She mumbles quietly to herself, thinking aloud: ]

So, he was executed and the rest were exiled? Hm...

[ — And then she swims right into someone else in a full-on collision. Whoops. ]

[ I'm game for any prompts you'd like! Makoto will be investigating anything and everything, so hit me up on Plurk at retroscape if you'd like to plot out something specific! ]