Stavanger Bay let me down so i can fly, fly, fly

Raptor lowered himself and sneaked forward, grinning like a fool as he flipped his head over as much as he could, exposing the underside of his jaw, and let his long tongue loll. "I knowww," he drawled in a light tone. "But you'd miss me." He held his comical pose for a while longer, fluttering his eyelids up at Sandpiper as his tail flicked sand this way and that as it swished back and forth. Then he stepped back and meandered toward the crab.

With his back turned (and thus, his handsome bandit masked face as well), Raptor uttered a quiet,

"thank you."