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Cayden shrugs. "Something else then!" He absentmindedly pulls out a ribbon eel from a crack in the ship's planks and twirls it around like a lasso.

Cayden grins. "Yup! What should we call it? Fluffy or Bubbles?" He giggles. The ribbon eel, quite alarmed, slithers away discreetly.

Cayden nods. "Flurry Fluffy Bubbles the 1st! That's your name now," he says to the leviathon.

Cayden happily joins in petting it, giggling all the while. He brings Fathom over. 'Look! Another friend for you!"

Cayden laughs and shifts to his megalodon form, a 68-foot-long megalodon with bioluminescent blue spots along his back and a big toothy grin.
Fathom makes the squid equivalent of a squeal of delight and pats his head, then does the same for the leviathan.

Cayden shifts back momentarily to wave at her, then reverts to his shark form. "It's me!" His voice echoes oddly a bit.
Fathom, who apparently knows ASL, signs Safe! Fun! Play! Food! at Vē'Êtherñøth.

"I do that a lot," Cayden frowns. "People are normally scared of things bigger than them, like me, which is ridiculous. An Irukandji can kill you faster than I can, and it's itty bitty!"

do you have an actual language, or do you just find random accents and stick them on top of random letters?
also how would you pronounce that, I haven't the slightest idea

"Hm," Cayden says, and shifts back so he can shrug. "Not you, maybe. But lots of other people." He watches an octopus glide across the sandy floor for a moment, then shrugs again.
Fathom waves to the octopus and signs hello. The octopus, being rude and arrogant and suffering from a disease called Normal ANimal Syndrome, ignores her and continues his journey.

wow. i don't technically need to have words, since octopodes, squid, jellyfish, other cephalopods and siphonophores use a form of sign language that's incredibly hard for humans to learn, whales have their backflops and songs, and moray eels can morse code with their two pairs of jaws. i also can't picture sea creatures talking like cartoon animals.

I already did lol.

huh. one of my friends is learning Finnish. he's going in the summer. lucky sucker.

"I know tinier guys, too," Cayden says flipping upside down and hanging there. "Grass piggies! They're not very nice though."

I can't tell if you're talking about Seafarers, humans or cartoon sea creatures lol

very

yup. he's taught me one word that I mostly forget. it either meant "thank you," "sorry" or "sausage"

also by "grass piggies," Cayden means moss piglets, water bears or tardigrades. microscopic little eight-legged vaguely bear-like sea creatures.

"You need a lot for a lunch," Cayden says. "Many colonies. But yep!" He flips right-side-up and sits on Fathom's head.

Denny knows it in german. as well as other phrases like "let's go to the hospital!" and "I like giraffes," "slinkies are fun" and "I don't want peas"

Cayden claps. "You can go bigger? Then why don't you go big big like me!" He shifts back to his megalodon form. "If you're small, people can step on you! And that's not fun."

A weird combination of having been there and knowing some random words and phrases, as well as quick check with Denny one sec a kid in her class who gets up at lunch and teaches the class random phrases in random languages. she knows an insane amount of random stuff and has been an insane amount of places.
and I haven't even been offworld out of Canada

"Have you ever been stepped on?" Cayden taps a down beat on Fathom's head. She doesn't seem to mind.

eccentric
if half of what she says is true, her cousins are way more so and should come on this site.
_{I want to swim with whale sharks on Christmas Eve now}

"We're under pressure!" Cayden grins. "Four miles of it sitting on top of our skulls. Or" he taps Fathom's head, "on top of our nerve systems."

"Then you have a nice thick skull," Cayden says. "Like a iceberg! You have an iceberg skull! 'Cept not col. Probably. Is your skull cold?"

"Like a volcano, then!" Cayden shrugs. "No. Wait. Volcanoes blow up. A volcano without the blowing up."