It's not about that Billy! I've always just felt at home underwater! If we were, say, land slugs or something, I'm sure that you'd be slithering rings around me. Just enjoy the wish!

Which she could say, of course, now that she was covered up and not exposed for Billy to see. She had no idea what he was thinking of course: for whatever reason, while she could be coy, Katara was otherwise unobservant to her own looks.

The more they went down, the more they saw: coral reefs, schools of fish and small anemones that Katara would not have noticed before. She laughed when a fish got pretty close to her nose and tickled it slightly.