Linda pretty much needed to be hauled back onto the deck by a combined effort of multiple people and her skeleton on the deck because she's so glutted with a mass of mermaids. At least she had the decency to shift the population she managed to gorge on into her tail on the way up. So that the huge sphere of her belly and weight of her prey didn't have to be hauled over the railing all at once. Stretching their mass out over the length of her tail makes it much easier to get her over.<br/><br/>As if in response to the accusation of being a glutton Linda winds up belching up some of the extra air she swallowed to stay afloat. "Excuse me. I suppose there's no denying that though. The way they scattered after I hit the water almost makes me think they were afraid of feeding me." She rubs her belly disappointedly. "I only got three of them before they were all suddenly gone. A girl's gotta eat when she gets the chance you know." Of course three mermaids would be more enough to feed anyone. Wanting to go beyond that is blatant overindulgence.<br/>(If Synys lets Linda have the mermaids caught in the black tentacles:) The current state of her tail is particularly damning evidence of unchecked gluttony. So full of mermaids after devouring Synys' 'catch' in addition to her own Linda can barely get about the deck. Yet she's talking as if she's been withheld the main course of a dinner.<br/>(If Synys doesn't and Linda only got the three she caught:) Despite that, Linda's tail only resembles a snake after a large meal. If someone didn't know better or hadn't just seen her devour a few mermaids in one sitting she might actually be able to convince them she's legitimately hungry. She doesn't even seem very inconvenienced by the trio of mermaids slowly turning into an extra layer of padding on her body.<br/><br/>"Did you see Alizome while you were down there while you were underwater Xarces? She seems to have disappeared after a few of us were washed overboard and it took me a bit to accidentally scare the mermaids away."