Eridan's back stiffens at the question. Oh, you thought he was swimming in dangerous water before! You have no idea what Pandora's box you just opened!

"N-No!" he snarls, pulling away from Jade and the very question itself. It probably doesn't help him case that, in recoiling fro her, he steps into the tide and just about jumps out of his skin. He treks further up the shore to avoid the tide that seems to be getting higher and higher, closing in on their tiny island while Feferi giggles in the distance. Ugh, what's there even to be scared of anyway? Then again, Eridan certainly seems jumpier than usual.