The Beach, just after dawn

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Don't ask why Tino was willing to get Kenzi 150 pounds of shrimp. It was either bribery, blackmail, or sheer bludgeoning personality. Whyever he did it, he did it without asking questions.

Which was why Kenzi was at the beach at dawn, with a rented rickshaw full of fish.

"Heeeeere, squiddy, squiddy, squid. Heeeere giant huge pretty fishy. I have something for youuuuuuuu!" She paused. "Sunshine, I summon thee! Yo, giant squid! I have a business offer!"

...if it didn't work, they could always be barbecued later, right?

[for the above named, but hey, if you want to ask her what the hell she's doing, feel free.]

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Slowly, tentatively, and a little bit sadly, a sound arose from the depths of the ocean.

"BLOOP?"

A bit like the bubbling of a fish tank aerator if that tank were the size of Tokyo.

"BLOOOOOOP?"

The second sound was accompanied by the emergence of a huge pinkish-orange tentacle, groping onto land and toward the rickshaw.

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Kenzi's jaw dropped. "Holy shit. It worked!" She beamed. "Um, hiiii, yeah, no, don't-- not yet, please?"

Not that she could stop Sunshine. Because see: tentacle groping for rickshaw.

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Sunshine more or less comprehended Squeaky Pink Thing language, because Mummy had once been a Squeaky Pink Thing, long before Sunshine knew her, and she'd still used their words when she sang in Sunshine's head.

She knew no, at least, though she could take or leave actually obeying it from anyone who wasn't Mummy. Still, she was willing to listen. For the moment.

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If Kenzi had ever met Mummy, she would have said thank you for teaching Sunshine the Squeaky Pink Thing language.

And then she would've run like hell.

Right now, though, she put her hands together in a begging praying please-please-please and said, "Okay, so, me and a lot of other people would really, really, really appreciate it if you'd kind of-- do something distracting and attacking, later today? Not so you get hurt, but so the guys in the white helmets come out and look for you? I will order even more fish! I will get people to bring you fish!"

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Mostly Sunshine got more fish out of that speech, but underneath the the tiny human voice she heard a sound that she hadn't heard in years: the quiet, hopeful thrumming of the island itself, cutting through the dull pink sadness that had long ago made her slink away to the murky waters of the lower deeps.

"BLOOP."

That might have been a yes.

It might just have been a get out of my way before I mistake you for a crustacean. Either way, the tentacle was headed for the rickshaw again.

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"Okay! So... good talk!" Kenzi bunched her fists and bounced, then squeaked and tripped her way out of the path of the tentacle. "Yeah, I'll just leave you to breakfast, and... thank you?"

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"Bloooooooop..."

That one was most definitely... a reply of some sort?

Or at least a dismissal, as the entire pile of shrimp, rickshaw, tentacle and all, was yoinked into the water to disappear without a trace.