Come With Me Lad

Again Terence lowers the Nachoo.

The baby cuttlefish backs into it slowly.

It's in! says Terence.

Pull it up, says Gaius. 

Terence lifts the Nachoo out of the water and peers in.

The baby cuttlefish stares out at Terence. 

Hello, says Terence. 

Hello, says the baby cuttlefish.

It talks! says Terence. It didn't before.

I was a baby, says the baby cuttlefish.

You're still a baby, says Terence. 

And I didn't like the egg box, says the baby cuttlefish.

Do you like the Nachoo? asks Terence.

I like this end, says the baby cuttlefish. Not the other end where I couldn't see out.

You're going to have a happy life, says Terence.

I know, says the baby cuttlefish. I'm going to learn mapping.

How come? asks Terence.

That's what you do in a Nachoo, says the baby cuttlefish.

Who said? asks Terence.

Lobster Guy, says the baby cuttlefish.

Ageless lobster is sunning himself on a rock, in his sunnies.

What's up? asks Ageless.

Mapping, says Terence. 

O yes, says Ageless. Proper mapping. Baudin is the one to teach that.

Where is he? asks Terence.

Looking for his hat, says Ageless. 

Baudin appears, in his sea captain's hat.

Found it, says Captain Baudin. 

Job for you, says Ageless.

What's that? asks Captain Baudin.

Terence's cuttlefish wants to learn proper mapping, says Ageless. 

A lost art, says Captain Baudin.

But you haven't lost it, says Ageless.

The theory, no, says Captain Baudin. But I no longer have my theodolite, chains and compasses.

What would a baby cuttlefish do with theodolites, chains and compasses? asks Ageless.

Nothing, says Captain Baudin. But I'll give him a theoretical lesson. Where is he?

Here, in the Nachoo, says Terence. 

He hands Captain Baudin the string.

Come with me, lad, says Captain Baudin.

The baby cuttlefish has little choice in the matter.

What's going to happen?

Captain Baudin heads to the edge of a rock and dives in.

Splash!

And splash!

The second splash is the splash of the Nachoo.