[ So that's what it feels like to be caught in a (blessedly brief) hysterically-giggle-loop ... while in the crushing, freezing depths of the northern Atlantic, then! Lessons learned all around!
(Let him go back to punching sharks; that was easier.) ]
«Already missed both of those boats, didn't we?» [ he answers at last, as all the miserable giggling finally dies away. John has died, and she spat his sorry corpus back to shore; Augustine has thrown himself deeper into her depths than any simple human could ever hope to survive, and she hasn't granted him even a second of squid-shaped reprieve.
So of course he's swimming back to shore; what the hell else is he going to do? Sink to the very bottom, so that he can walk the length of the Marianas Trench, and see how many of their songs he can still fully sing in his head, and how many times he has to play through each of them before he's done? Still going to take quite a while to find that particular geological feature — and how frustrating would it be, to see the very end of the journey, and have her squid him then?
No, better to come back to shore; he still owes Sarah an apology, and he has a dragon-child to hatch, and —
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(Let him go back to punching sharks; that was easier.) ]
«Already missed both of those boats, didn't we?» [ he answers at last, as all the miserable giggling finally dies away. John has died, and she spat his sorry corpus back to shore; Augustine has thrown himself deeper into her depths than any simple human could ever hope to survive, and she hasn't granted him even a second of squid-shaped reprieve.
So of course he's swimming back to shore; what the hell else is he going to do? Sink to the very bottom, so that he can walk the length of the Marianas Trench, and see how many of their songs he can still fully sing in his head, and how many times he has to play through each of them before he's done? Still going to take quite a while to find that particular geological feature — and how frustrating would it be, to see the very end of the journey, and have her squid him then?
No, better to come back to shore; he still owes Sarah an apology, and he has a dragon-child to hatch, and —
Well, and there's John. ]