There is indeed a squid in the middle of the floating ball.
Except that the second Matilda is distracted, it stops being a floating ball and starts being a falling ball. And then a falling blob.
And then a whole lake's worth of splash.
Matilda yelps in surprise, stumbles, clings to the top of her rock, and gives the wave racing toward them as big a shove in the opposite direction as she possibly can. It reverses course, crashing back into the surface of the lake.
The shore is soaked in every direction. There are stranded fish scattered all along it, and the squid is scooping them up by the grumbly armful.
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Date: 2013-01-27 10:39 pm (UTC)Except that the second Matilda is distracted, it stops being a floating ball and starts being a falling ball. And then a falling blob.
And then a whole lake's worth of splash.
Matilda yelps in surprise, stumbles, clings to the top of her rock, and gives the wave racing toward them as big a shove in the opposite direction as she possibly can. It reverses course, crashing back into the surface of the lake.
The shore is soaked in every direction. There are stranded fish scattered all along it, and the squid is scooping them up by the grumbly armful.
"...oops," says Matilda.