Mara remained still as the human cut the net, watching her every motion and feeling her nerves slip away with each passing moment. The restricting material was loosening around her and she could start moving her arms again, which made a small smile flicker across her lips. It didn't take long for her to be able to prop herself up on her elbows as the last the net was being cut and pulled away from her. She didn't reply to the girl's apology for the fisherman's net but rather gazed at her thoughtfully. She supposed she couldn't blame the humans for trying to catch fish when her own people did the same. And she had gotten too close to the net out of her own freewill. But would that dolphin have been as lucky as she had been and survived the experience? Mara supposed she'd never know.

Something fell against her stomach, distracting her and making her jump. The item the girl had been wearing over her eyes. It must have slipped from her face. Mara stared down at the thing for a long moment, fascination etched into her expression. She glanced up at the girl when she asked for them back and nodded in response before picking them up. She hesitated, holding them in her hands before curiously raising them to her eyes ad slipped them on the way the girl had worn them. Mara pulled them away almost instantly, blinking her eyes and shaking her head a little. Everything had been so blurry through the clear lenses. Too blurry. But she was smiling a little as she turned back to the girl to hand the item back to her, and saw her staring.

Mara wasn't really used to attention like this, being looked at by someone who had never seen one of her kind before. She could feel the warmth of a blush spreading across her cheeks and when she met the girl's eyes Mara almost immediately glanced down at the sand, biting her lip shyly. She placed the lenses item in the girls outstretched hand and chanced another glance up at her face and caught the girl peering at her tail and fin. It made Mara blush a little bit more and she subconsciously flicked the fin so the blue-green and gold scales caught the sunlight and sparkled.

She took the opportunity to shifted her position and roll off of the last scraps of net that had been pinned under her. She rolled over onto her stomach and pulled herself up onto her elbows and sighed at the feeling of the stretch. It ached, of course, but being free of the net was what she cared about the most. She should be trying to get away now, to go back in the water before this got anymore catastrophic. But this girl had saved her, and Mara couldn't leave just yet. Not without thanking her. If only she could gather the courage to speak. 

It took a long moment before she did anything, but Mara finally took a deep breath and looked back up into the human's eyes. "Thank you," she said softly, managing a small smile as she did. "Thank you for freeing me from the net. You didn't have to and ..." Mara paused as took another nervous breath. "I'm very grateful for your kindness, and I wish there was something I could do to repay you."