"That's a nice way to look at it," she smiled, and then watched with great interest as he pulled himself out of the water. His tail looked like a dolphin's, or a shark's. Very sleek and not scaly how she might have expected. She hugged her knees to her chest, preventing herself from reaching out to touch it. Why she was suddenly feeling so curious and impulsive, she didn't know. Maybe that was another magical side effect...

"You...you got to go back home?! How...how did you do that? And...and you still came back?"