Circular Motion Gets You Nowhere

What Ageless knows:

In rescuing someone, the first task is to find them. The second is to get them back home.

Rear Admiral Bruni treads water while Ageless lifts Baby Pierre.

Baby Pierre struggles.

Relax, says Ageless. We'll get you home in a jiffy.

I'm not coming, says Baby Pierre.

.......

Baby Pierre is coming. Ageless has made it quite clear.

Baby Pierre did not want to be rescued by someone so cruel.

Ageless, his daddy,

who has bitten off the tail of the Ruby Sea Dragon in front of his eyes.

But then Ageless insisted.

........

Rear Admiral Bruni has spotted the net beside Baby Pierre and suggested it as a makeshift vessel.

It's full of holes, as nets are.

Beggars can't be choosers, says Rear Admiral Bruni. What a shame you frightened the rest of the ruby sea dragons away.

I don't see the point of it, says Ageless.

What? asks Rear Admiral Bruni.

Getting in the net, says Ageless.

Yes, says Baby Pierre. I dropped it because it was awkward.

I must pull rank here, says Rear Admiral Bruni. I do know the sea.

I know the sea, says Ageless lobster.

Me too, says Baby Pierre. I've been in it for AGES.

You know nothing, says Rear Admiral Bruni. These are the deeps. The deeper you get the smaller the circular motion of particles.

Wow, says Baby Pierre. What does that mean?

Bugger all, says Ageless. Circular motion won't get us anywhere.

That's my point, says Rear Admiral Bruni. What we must do is catch a wave packet. As waves propagate, their energy is transported as group velocity. Wave energy is calculated as one eighth p g H squared m o.

This sounds feasible, coming from a rear admiral.

Ageless and Baby Pierre climb into the net, Ageless still grasping the skewer.

With the uneaten portion of Ruby Sea Dragon, whose fate is already decided.