She follows his indicating finger down to her skirt, and makes a small, surprised noise. Carefully, she unfastens it from the fabric of her skirt, and turns to trot back to the tide pools. However, she hesitates when she gets there, her toes just inches from the waterline.

Then she takes a deep breath, steels herself, and wades in only far enough to set the five-legged echinoderm back where it belongs.