Vertigo?

As Isopia looked at the list of matches, finding her name with the word for a feeling of dizziness or being off balance, and wondered briefly if this was some sort of joke, or nudge at just how awkward Isopia had become. Babel, her golden dragon, was running around trying to catch a mouse and couldn't care less about what name was next to Isopia's on the board. Hubris however, trying to be helpful, patted her neck and crooned reassurances softly into her mind. Alright then, she thought to herself with a sigh, casting her golden gaze around.

"Vertigo?" She called out, scanning those mulling around her, waiting to see a look of recognition spread across one of their faces. The demi-goddess knew that she was looking for a man (or so the board said), but past that, she had no indicators about who it was she was paired with.

Isopia, who'd never been regarded as any sort of predator, never really encountered racism (except as an intellectual exercise), and who known by most Helovian's simply because of who her father was, took in her partner's stance and greeting with something like amused interest. Do you hate me, Isopia wondered silently, marvelling that someone could judge her so quickly and seem to want to dismiss her out of hand.

"I did. We're together." Isopia said, looking at the chromatic mare with academically sterile golden eyes. Isopia's wings were tucked against her flanks, below the billowing red cloth. Two dragons sat upon her back, one gold and one bronze, both peering forward curiously. "I am called The Mountain that Knows." Isopia said, knowing that she ought to introduce herself, and feeling compelled to continue to try and be polite and normal.

"Shall we?" Isopia looked towards the water's edge where it was slightly less crowded. She didn't fancy the idea of staying among those who were still mulling about; not because she wanted any sort of intimacy with this mare, but because she hated crowds. 

In all of her years, Isopia had never been asked that question before, and it would have made her feel like smiling in amazement, impressed with this mare, had the large draft not turned her attention to the water's edge. The demigoddess, not particularly apt at reading body language, didn't pick up on whatever coldness might have been falling off of the horned woman, and instead, Isopia opted silently to follow her. As she moved steadily behind, she thought about what an appropriate answer to the question she had asked might be.

What was it that she was supposed to know?

"Things others don't." She answered, halting a few feet away from Vertigo and look out across the water. Bugs skimmed along the surface and for a moment Isopia thought about conjuring up a watery fish to eat them, but decided against it.

"You don't seem...as though you are enjoying this process." She noted with academic pointedness. "Why did you sign up?"

The mare's words don't make a ton of sense to Isopia. It was as if the unicorn was speaking more to herself, than to Iso, for she didn't bother to describe how she had been enjoying herself to an extreme, and why she sounded so sour about it. But as Isopia often did, she refrained from asking more details.

"I can understand unwanted memories." Isopia offered with a nod of her head. It was perhaps the one sort of thing she could empathize with. So much was beyond her emotional range, but memories...memories she knew about. "Once I had all my memories of someone entirely removed...I have them back now...but at the time having them gone was the only thing that helped." Not normally this forthcoming with personal information, Isopia too directed her golden gaze towards the water. It was much easier to look at the sunlight dancing across the surface than to look back at the mare to whom she'd told a fact about herself that almost no one else knew.