Pick It Up Bingo

The sunglasses will stay on, says Ageless. 

I knew it, says Terence.

All I have to do is remain horizontal, says Ageless.

You've forgotten something, says Terence.

What's that? asks Ageless.

Swimming, says Terence. 

Swimming is horizontal, says Ageless.

Collecting cuttlefish eggs, says Terence.

Collecting cuttlefish eggs is horizontal, says Ageless.

Dropping one, says Terence.

Even that, says Ageless. I float gently down, feel about on the sea floor, connect with an egg, pick it up and bingo.

What if it wasn't an egg? asks Terence.

What else would it be? asks Ageless.

Terence thinks. It would be something. Maybe treasure.

A Spanish doubloon, says Terence.

Then I'd be in luck, says Ageless. I'd take it to the Museum.

Would you get money? asks Terence.

It IS money, says Ageless .

 A reward, says Terence.

I'd be on the news, says Ageless. Lobster Guy, who found a Spanish doubloon off Point Lowly.

How did it get there? asks Terence.

This is your story, says Ageless. You tell me.

A pirate dropped it, says Terence. 

Ageless starts singing a pirate song.

Yo ho ho, hee hee hee, a pirate life for me......

Over and over.

Terence makes his way back to Gaius and Denis.

Denis is writng an email to Henriette. 

Gaius is reading a scholarly article on air bubble curtains.

Gaius looks up.

Has Ageless worked out how to keep his sunglasses on underwater? asks Gaius.

He says he'll stay horizontal, says Terence. And he'll pick up the eggs horizontal.  And if he drops one he'll float down horizontal and pick up a Spanish doubloon.

Are you sure he said that? asks Gaius.

He sang the last part, says Terence. 

Denis adds these funny details to his email to Henriette:

Our Lobster Guy now wears sunglasses, pushed up on the top of his head, obliging him to stay horizontal in water. He seems to think that when he drops a cuttlefish egg he'll find a Spanish doubloon. This he told us while singing.

He presses send, happy with his effort.

Unverified as it is.