Chapter 127: III. Underwater pg. 38

He stood up on one of the roots and wiped water away from a pair of stubby tentacles on his face. They reminded her of the barbells that some fish had. But he couldn’t be a fish.

“I can see you,” she blurted out. Now that he was inadvertently exposing himself much more than either of them expected, it only felt right to warn him. And now that she knew why he kept looking at her scar.

Kirk’s tentacles squished up against his snout. “Bullshit. What’s my aspect?”

“It’s a red salamander? One of those blind ones that lives in a cave..?”

“A caecilian.” He swiftly jumped–nearly fell–back into the lake. “I don’t understand- Why now?”

“Maybe you just needed time?” Phoebe said.

He scoffed. “I bet I’ll turn back that minute that smartass looks at me.”

“Well, we don’t have to leave yet,” she replied.

She climbed again, and that was enough encouragement for him to follow again. They jumped and swam until they were both beat. Kirk remained visible the whole time. As they relaxed under the shade of the cypress Phoebe asked him about his home-city of Rideau, which turned to him sharing some of his most outrageous Occult Ontario stories- including a time they hunted a local cryptid.

“So we were all in the woods like fucking idiots, and do you know what we find?” he asked.

“What?”

“A bear with mange. I almost got scalped.”

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