Your grandmother was wise. [She seems pleased regardless, watching his fingers dip into the water. This water isn't the ocean water of her home or anything like that, but there's still a connection there, a feeling of belonging. The water was part of her as much as she was part of it. From the sea she was born and to the sea she would return, but for now the water she found here could substitute.

She watches the line of his hand, where his fingers disappear into the water and sighs softly, raising her gaze to meet his at the question.] Hmm. Made deal. That man, the one who destroyed things and flooded? Talked to him. He gave me my tail back.

[Her tail swishes through the water a little faster to show it off some, clearly proud of it.] Do you want to see it? [Out of the water, she means.]