It's a while later that Ilde surfaces, pulling herself up out of the water and wrapping illusion around herself as she does; by the time she stops beside him, she looks almost human (almost-- there's an otherworldly edge that she could hide, and chooses not to). The illusory dress spun around herself is half-hearted and gauzy, seasonally inappropriate to say the least, but unlikely to raise any eyebrows in Raven's Gate among people who've seen stranger or are simply already accustomed to her comings and goings.

"Hello," she says, twisting some of the excess water out of her hair as she straightens, smiling.