[Zel flashes the ghost of a smirk sidelong - a kind of really? energy to it that lacks bite. the offer is endearing, even if he would feel truly awkward acting on it.]
It's already half-spilled out of y--
[the bloop of a sudden water shift is all the warning he gets before something bursts out of the water to his left, and it's all he can do but elbow Emery further out of the way while twisting to face...whatever it is. in the speed of the moment, all he's getting is the sense of a large, blurry, amorphous shape lunging and grappling him, inadvertently given advantage by Zel turning at all and setting his own balance off.
he pitches forward when the weight of the thing yanks him down.]
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It's already half-spilled out of y--
[the bloop of a sudden water shift is all the warning he gets before something bursts out of the water to his left, and it's all he can do but elbow Emery further out of the way while twisting to face...whatever it is. in the speed of the moment, all he's getting is the sense of a large, blurry, amorphous shape lunging and grappling him, inadvertently given advantage by Zel turning at all and setting his own balance off.
he pitches forward when the weight of the thing yanks him down.]