[The bemused look upon his face makes plain his lack of familiarity with such a gesture, and so it is rather tepidly that he takes the tentacle into his grasp. Misunderstanding the strange boy's instructions, however, he shakes the slippery smooth appendage from side to side. When he does so, the other tentacle which caresses the wavering surface of the lake reaches upward to touch upon Achilles' shoulder. He tenses for but a moment, soon relaxing once he realizes that the creature has no wish to tear his arm from his shoulder nor to drag him into the depths of the lake.]
You are right! It seems not to mind this in the least. How strange that a beast so frightening in form can be so mild of temperament!
[Wonder hangs ripe from his words as he peers at the shimmering limbs of the lake dweller.]
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You are right! It seems not to mind this in the least. How strange that a beast so frightening in form can be so mild of temperament!
[Wonder hangs ripe from his words as he peers at the shimmering limbs of the lake dweller.]