nice to sea you again

Spider nods along, though there remains a morose angle to their shoulders, the slope of their neck. "yeah, my thoughts exactly - though i don't know how i'm gonna do that if i can't even look at the water -" they're cut off as the ground flies out from under them, a scream tearing from their throat. in a blind panic they grapple for Strai, and the pair go tumbling into the water, falling nose over tail as they roll over and over in a tangled scrum. and then there's a rock jutting up from the shallows, and the pair knock into it and spring apart, each tossed further into the ocean's depths. Spider is so disoriented that they don't immediately understand what's happened, except that...that Strai's not there anymore.

fuck.

"Speech"