What Egg?

Louis-Claude de Freycinet likes the idea of the egg box, with its circular door.

How many cuttlefish eggs do you expect to fit in it? he asks Ageless.

A dozen or so, says Ageless.

A good number, says Louis-Claude. What will you do if the cuttlefish see you?

Do you think they will care? asks Ageless.

Probably not, says Louis-Claude. I've heard they die before their eggs hatch.

But you've raised an important question, says Ageless. 

Which is? says Louis-Claude.

Should I act in secret or out in the open? says Ageless.

You tend to stand out in those sunglasses, says Louis-Claude.

I plan to wear them as goggles, underwater, says aGeless.

He pulls the sunglasses down, to sit over his eyes.

He has not tried this before.

Arrg! He is blinded.

Perhaps not, says Ageless. I can't see a thing through these lenses.

It's not the lenses, says Louis-Claude. Your eyes are on stalks, and the sunglasses have bent them.

Ageless raises the sunglasses and settles them back on the top of his head.

Clik! He can see again.

It matters not, says Ageless. I'll come up with a story to explain what I'm doing.

Louis-Claude stops rowing.

Imagine I'm a cuttlefish, says Louis-Claude. I've come up behind you as you're stealing an egg.

All right, says Ageless. This will be good practice.

He mimes stealing an egg.

What are you doing, Monsieur Lobster Guy? asks Louis-Claude. 

How do you know my name? asks Ageless, feigning surprise.

I don't, says Louis-Claude. You just look like a Lobster Guy, wearing sunglasses underwater.

They're my goggles, says Ageless, but I can't wear them as goggles because they bend my eye stalks.

You should try adjusting your strap, says Louis-Claude.

We are straying off topic, says Ageless.

Pardon, says Louis-Claude. Tell me, what are you planning to do with that egg?

What egg? asks Ageless, miming dropping the egg surreptitiously into an egg box.

Trés bien, says Louis-Claude. And then I swim off, thinking I must have imagined it.

Success!

Ageless nods, leans back in the dinghy and relaxes.

Louis-Claude keeps on rowing.