"<i>T-that's not fair!" </i>Kital wailed as she found herself suddenly ensnared within her friend's coils. She struggled rather fruitlessly, wriggling her head and tail from side to side, until her friend decided to release her. Freed, she dropped to the ground, and fired a pointed jet of water at her friend's retreating back. It missed.<br/><br/><i>"Maybe I just don't want to avoid you, silly," </i>the matsuba muttered quietly under her breath, pouting for a moment as she lay in the dirt, before she remembered that the human's eyes were still on her. She quickly pushed off with her fins, hovering slightly above the ground again, and shook off as much of the dirt as she could.<br/><br/>"<i>Alright, then," </i>She said, turning to face the human. She slowly drifted higher, coming to a stop as she reached eye level, and then slowly looked him up and down with a critical gaze. She'd been right; he did have nice eyes. That didn't get him off the hook, though. "<i>You make sure you don't pull anything like that on her again, got it? Otherwise you'll answer to me."</i><br/><br/>He wouldn't understand her words, of course - humans were a bit slow like that - but she did her best to deliver the message through the look in her eyes. That done, she nodded to herself, then darted forward to swim past his head and loop around to come to rest by his side. "<i>Ok,</i>l<i>et's get going! Farewell, lake! Farewell, fishes!</i>"