Until its dying breath the seal fought its way back to the ocean. Unfortunately for the seal, it would fall just short. Luckily for himself, he wouldn’t have to try and figure out how to tread water in freezing temperatures. When the seal grew still, so did he and Sephiran. Collecting themselves through heaving breaths, though the opportunity to do so didn’t last for very long. Suddenly the sound of splintering ice cracked between them, and just as soon as he came to the conclusion to thrust himself away from the edge of the ice sheet … the ice broke in a way that the seal slid off into the depths below. A wave of violent annoyance overtook him as he stared, blinking at the spot the seal had been- the smears of blood being the only evidence that anything had happened at all. “What was the FUCKING POINT!?”In the end, their wasted effort, all for nothing.