under da sea

Woops he hadn’t expected it, butHana sank in surprise at his sudden appearance. He waited a moment, and then she surfaced, angry and scolding. He ducked, expecting her to toss a wave his way, biting back a laugh as he did so. Instead, after baring her teeth, she calmed down and asked him how he found her. “I was just on the Ashen territories over there” he explained, pointing a wet wing in the right direction. He paddled gently to stay afloat as he spoke. “Saph said she thought she saw you out this way, so I swam over” he explained. It was a decent swim, but he had most certainly grown into his body. Towering equal heights to his dad, with the muscles of a fighter. Plus, he had been doing a great deal of swimming lately. It helped, living by the ocean. So his body was accustomed to the exercise.

“Did you want company?” he asked. It hadn’t occurred to him before that she might have come out here to fish alone. But as she had said, she hadn’t told anyone she had come out here. Did that mean she had intended for some alone time? Oh well. He was here now. They might as well work together, right?

He grinned at her, his rudder-tail wiggling behind him. “So what were you thinking of catching? I’ve heard there's all sorts of interesting stuff out here. I saw a turtle when I was swimming out to you, and there’s fish and mussels and fish and eels. Have you tried eel?” he was babbling, he knew that. But somehow, he couldn’t quite seem to stop, either. He had a sudden inspiration to try everything and gorge themselves sick on a huge variety of seafood.

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