"It would," she said, floating through the water lazily, then flicking her tail to swim back to him. She stacked her forearms on a piece of coral and looked at him. "Hi." She smiled broadly.
He chuckled. “Hi! What’re we gonna do?”
"Wanna… ride a seahorse?" she asked excitedly.
His eyes grew wide. “You can do that?!”
"Yup!" she chirped.
“Well then of course I want to,”
"Yay!" she cheered, clapping excitedly. "Come on, follow me!" She quickly swam off towards a bright patch of coral.
He tried his best to keep up, eventually catching up.
She grinned and swam through a maze of seaweed before coming upon a small grotto.
“It’s so cool,” he let his fingers drag across the seaweed.
"What is?" she asked, stopping to wait for him.
"This place, it's not like the land at all,"
"How so? Is the land better? If you like the water so much, why do you need a bubble? Why can't you breathe underwater? Why can you swim with legs, but we can't walk with tails?" she asked rapid-fire, her eyes wide. She wanted all the answers.
"Slow down," he chuckled, "One thing at a time… I think the land is nice but this is a new experience, being in the water, I mean. I don't have gills so my body doesn't convert the oxygen in H2o like yours does. My lungs need actual oxygen and yours converts it for you promoting brain function and…" he stopped, his doctor mode kicking in so he went on to the next subject. "Humans feet work the same way as the end of your tail but they're smaller so we're slower and your tail doesn't separate so it's hard to balance. When humans are first born they can't walk, I'm sure you could learn to walk it would just be difficult and clumsy. You'd probably need a wheelchair or something,"
Moxiey looked at him like he was a prophet. "You're smart," she said firmly. "How do you know all that?"
He chuckled. “Years of school and now college. I’m going to become a doctor,”
"That's amazing!" she chirped.
"I suppose so," he agreed quietly.
She tilted her head slightly. "What do you mean?"
“I dunno. Just that I suppose it’s alright”,
"You must be so smart…" she purred.
“I dunno. I think you’re pretty smart,”
"No, I'm stupid," she replied, her gaze lowering shyly.
“I don’t think so. I think you’re brilliant,”
She looked up with wide eyes. "You… You really think so?"
“I don’t know you all too well but yeah, I think so,”
"No, I'm stupid…"
“Doubtful,”
"Nope!"
"Um, yes!"
