[Yeah, sure, Arcade. It'll give him a few moments to think through it.
Or another swimming monster attack, that might also make it obvious.
For now, it sinks lower in the water - only to realize, with some annoyance, that no matter how changed its face is, and probably its whole breathing apparatus, talking into water is just as ineffective as it should have expected. The mandibles twitch again, trying to rub the water away. Instead it rises again with a flick of its - ugh - tail, giving the block of ice a testing nudge. It's not trying to unbalance the whole thing. It's also running calculations, looking between them and the shore, so it doesn't have to think too much about the motions and start doing the fish-tail equivalent of tripping over itself.]
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Or another swimming monster attack, that might also make it obvious.
For now, it sinks lower in the water - only to realize, with some annoyance, that no matter how changed its face is, and probably its whole breathing apparatus, talking into water is just as ineffective as it should have expected. The mandibles twitch again, trying to rub the water away. Instead it rises again with a flick of its - ugh - tail, giving the block of ice a testing nudge. It's not trying to unbalance the whole thing. It's also running calculations, looking between them and the shore, so it doesn't have to think too much about the motions and start doing the fish-tail equivalent of tripping over itself.]
You want to float back?