Two Eyes Cenote Arsenic and Lace

A place where the water could burn? Wow! Really?! He imagined such a place, and thought it must be like swimming in the sun. The sun could burn; he'd been to Tavina often enough after being outside for too long, himself.

The mention of Meseba, one of the larger of the mazoi that Kiyya had spied upon, made him positively burst with enthusiasm. YOU FOUGHT MESEBA AND YOU LIVED? He's huge Saf! WOW! Behind him his tail was a whirl, and the boy practically bounced around his sister with all the coltish energy he could not contain.

Being a mazoi sounds like so much funnnn. He drones, full of mirthful jealousy.