[Training] Waterproof

K O A

and they will shake their heads
and wag their bony fingers

The day Hadama can look Pipsqueak in the eye and tell her she's about to become an orphan is the day Koa will Attune. No? Too hard?

Yeah, for me, too.

Anyway, back to training. There was good news and bad news about Koa's plan. The good news was that he managed to snag the mermanta by his tail(?), causing Koa to bare his teeth in a grin of feral triumph.

The bad news? He was absolutely unprepared to be lashed and dragged and smacked around, sand quickly filling his mouth and nose and other unpleasant places.

Still the young man stubbornly holds on, trying to dig his heels into the ground, wrap his legs around a post - anything to regain control of this situation. And, his hands occupied and his legs flailing for purchase, he uses the only weapon he has left. Without much thought on the decorum of the act, Koa bites Hadama's muscular tail, hard as he possibly can, while simultaneously wrapping his arms around the mermanta in a doubtless ill-fated attempt at a grapple, copper eyes gleaming behind the ridiculous mask.

in all the wrong directions—
and by daybreak we'll be gone