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Anger, sorrow, hate, remorse. It was all out on the seabed now, and he could never take it back. Did he want to? He didn't feel any better now. He only felt ugly. Ugly, as Dinah warmth unraveled from his side. Ugly even when mom helf him. Ugly when John didn't talk like he always did, because he had shut him up.

Kai made the choice to stay --

But he's still just a kid, just like us. They hadn't even seen more than two seasons! They'd just learned how to swim! Why did everyone think that right thing to do was letting them choose whether to follow their only family left or not? How could mom just stay quiet and leave the choice in their paws?

But now, Dinah's storm stuck him, in a way he'd never felt it before. She had never been angry with him, not like this, never heard her so disappointed. He always knew Dee hated Kai (and honestly, he'd never really done much to curry her good favour), but this --

he'd never known this --

and suddenly, she felt an alien to him.

You're gonna leave us, too.

He had no answer. He'd given it already - but he felt the fracture, and he sensed the motion of mom's shaking head.

Still, she didn't speak, and neither did John. A choice in his paws, because Dee had already made hers.

Simeon pulled away, though the cold had alrwady settled through him. We'll go talk with Kai, he reasoned, and stepped in the direction of Sweetharbour, we don't have to stay there. But we need to decide what to do together. I know that's the way dad would want it.

Das had loved Kai, as much as he'd loved each of them.

And he knew they knew it, too.