"No." No, the octopus definitely did not find any pleasure in the meeting, glaring at the bemused merman with all the rage of a very young Elder God in the making. Hadama wasn't particularly enjoying it anymore himself now that he couldn't set the cephalopod down. While Kenza thought about his predicament he reached up to set his fishing rod on the dock so he would have one hand free to wrangle his new eight-armed accessory.
"Yes," was the simple response to her admonition to wait while she went off to gather distractions. Hadama lowered the octopus back into the water so it could breathe while they waited, and to rest his own arm. He fended off further encroachment up his arm with his free hand, but when it was one versus four (two of the octopus's arms were firmly wrapped around the boot, and the other two around his arm) he couldn't make much progress.
It was with a sense of quiet relief that he met Kenza's return, nodding in approval of her driftwood stick idea. The octopus ignored the stick at first, then slowly began to twine one of its arms around it, tugging at it curiously. "Good thinking," Dama rumbled, managing to get one coil of tentacle unwrapped from where it had reached his elbow. "Can you distract one more?"
"Yes," was the simple response to her admonition to wait while she went off to gather distractions. Hadama lowered the octopus back into the water so it could breathe while they waited, and to rest his own arm. He fended off further encroachment up his arm with his free hand, but when it was one versus four (two of the octopus's arms were firmly wrapped around the boot, and the other two around his arm) he couldn't make much progress.
It was with a sense of quiet relief that he met Kenza's return, nodding in approval of her driftwood stick idea. The octopus ignored the stick at first, then slowly began to twine one of its arms around it, tugging at it curiously. "Good thinking," Dama rumbled, managing to get one coil of tentacle unwrapped from where it had reached his elbow. "Can you distract one more?"
