Xas raises his eyebrows above Shrieky's drink, swallows and takes a moment to consider the flavor, and then says, "Communal bathing it is."
A few weeks ago he might have balked, but he'd since taken the mermaid's advice and gone swimming at the beach. The first time he wore a shirt, saw a dozen people with stranger skin and more painful-looking scars than his, and felt stupid. So the next time he didn't. Someone whistled at the one on his side and asked if he'd been stabbed with a pike, and then showed him where she had once been stabbed with a pike, but otherwise no one seemed to care.
And, anyway, he is not going to come between Shrieky and his potential octopus love.
"Do we have time for me to get another drink?" he asks, holding the Shrieky's glass back out to him. "I want what you have. You can finish mine if you'd like."
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A few weeks ago he might have balked, but he'd since taken the mermaid's advice and gone swimming at the beach. The first time he wore a shirt, saw a dozen people with stranger skin and more painful-looking scars than his, and felt stupid. So the next time he didn't. Someone whistled at the one on his side and asked if he'd been stabbed with a pike, and then showed him where she had once been stabbed with a pike, but otherwise no one seemed to care.
And, anyway, he is not going to come between Shrieky and his potential octopus love.
"Do we have time for me to get another drink?" he asks, holding the Shrieky's glass back out to him. "I want what you have. You can finish mine if you'd like."