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"Good," he said with more conviction. "Here it comes." The murky water reached to his chest and her neck, and he could feel the current sweep floating crabs past, their little crustacean legs brushing against fur. A sharp intake of breath, and he dove once more, insistent on attaining at least one today. Maybe it was because he had an audience, maybe not. She seemed quite absorbed with her own thoughts, and it did not concern him to find them out. When he was underwater, it was as it had always been - him against the waves.

Abandon did emerge victorious, tossing his head back with a crab flailing in his jaws, proceeding to crush its center as much as he could until the spindly limbs ceased to move. He glanced over wild-eyed in the dark, locating her only by the moonlight filtering through the mangrove trees, and flung the dead crab onto the tangle of roots that stood just above the water. "You're a weird one," he laughed with little tact, "though I'm surprised to see your head up! I thought you might've had a death wish or something for a little while, that'd have been awkward for me."

"Do what you want!" He laughed himself, cheekily sloshing some water in her direction before dipping down to acquire another crab at a faster rate, the crunch into its core more vicious than before, the careless fling more forceful. "Don't blame me if you don't really want to. But I've got a request, I guess? Let's get out, eat some crab, and stick around till morning - I thought you were pretty but Motherfather knows I can't tell right now. Doesn't matter if you are or not, just curious."

"Fair enough," he said, wading out after what he thought was her, momentarily outlined in the filtered moonlight, and decided that less crabs was a decent sacrifice for surprisingly acceptable company.