"Oh, Ahnasha, I'm sure you would have managed," Ariel put her hand on Ahnasha's while it was on her shoulder, "But thank you all the same. I couldn't agree with you more about how things have turned out." Ariel grinned and lowered her hand. Looking out around the water, Ariel's expression became neutral. She only spotted Lorag nearby. "The others must have gone further out to swim. Sabine, how about we dry ourselves off. They'll probably reappear before we go."

Sabine considered swimming for a while longer, but there wasn't much light left. She nodded and accompanied her towards the shore. They both passed by Fendros, who was sitting cross-legged and holding onto Rhazii. Rhazii seemed to be entertaining himself for the most part by running his little hands through the wet sand from where he sat, occasionally trying to bring some to his mouth. He only succeeded in tasting some of the sand, but no large clumps entered his mouth as long as Fendros was around to stop him.

His head perked up when he heard the sisters stepping through the water past him. Upon seeing Sabine, he let out an excited shriek and began to make splashes in the water. Fendros was concerned at first, but realised quickly by Rhazii's nearly toothless smile that he was not upset. He didn't normally make noise like that unless he was crying. Fendros smiled that he was having such fun.

Under the water, Janius' eyesight was not nearly as clear as Kaleeth's, but he could recognise the kelp when he saw it. Most of the time, kelp was fairly uninteresting when compared to the colourful fish and coral that Janius had seen brought up from the sea before, but Kaleeth wanted to experience it to the fullest. Janius was startled when she suddenly surged into the kelp with no heed. The texture was interesting to say the least when run across his entire body, but Janius was more concerned by the fact that he could no longer see clearly where he was going. Once the initial fear had passed, Janius found which way was up again and trusted Kaleeth's guidance. He just hoped Kaleeth wouldn't panic if one of the kelp fronds accidentally wrapped itself around her arm or leg. Not that it would be a big problem to get unstuck.

More frightening was the sudden plume of sand ahead of them, heralding a panicked flat ray flapping away from the two big new creatures in the sea. It didn't look like it was dangerous as it swam away though, just alien, like most things in the ocean. Still, it was the first time Janius had seen such a fish before, so his heart was pounding for a short while.