[She has to suppress a joyful little squeal as he takes her down so rapidly. This is completely different from the mundane splashing around that humans do at the surface! It's almost like flying (not that she's flown before, either, but this is how she imagines it).
When she gets to hold the sea cucumber, it feels unexpectedly soft and slimy. She notices its body's protective contraction into a slightly more compact shape... it doesn't do much for its defence at all, as much as she can tell, and she has to wonder how these animals even make it to adulthood.]
They may be simple creatures, but they're still marvellous. Is everything bigger down here?
[Earthworms and leeches are so much smaller! Granted, as Jade already observed, this sea isn't exactly the wilderness, and its fauna is far more limited than that of the Great Ocean Lake.]
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When she gets to hold the sea cucumber, it feels unexpectedly soft and slimy. She notices its body's protective contraction into a slightly more compact shape... it doesn't do much for its defence at all, as much as she can tell, and she has to wonder how these animals even make it to adulthood.]
They may be simple creatures, but they're still marvellous. Is everything bigger down here?
[Earthworms and leeches are so much smaller! Granted, as Jade already observed, this sea isn't exactly the wilderness, and its fauna is far more limited than that of the Great Ocean Lake.]