"Yes!"

As they swim down, the children start making conversation. "Must be annoying having to wear a bathing suit just to visit the abyssal zone."

"Doesn't Maurice need something like that, too?"

"He can't really come down here, which double sucks. Evan can kind of do what you're doing, though."

"Yeah, guess I'll never be able to go down here naked." Pause. "Unless I just do the forcefield without the suit, I guess that could work, too."

"Probably shouldn't try that now."

"Could be worse, if he tried that in the actual abyssal zone, and it didn't work, he'd explode!"

"I mean, I already have the forcefield under the suit, technically the suit isn't really necessary."

"If you want to try it, do it. I think the suit's kind of cool. Wouldn't wear it swimming, but it's cool looking."

"I can do anything!" Poof goes the suit. Mask stays, but is transparent. "My suit's great. And it doesn't really matter if I swim in it since it disappears whenever I want, I can just make it dry again."

"Oh, you're still a boy today."

"Yeah."

"I never saw what was so great about boyishness."

"I don't think I could explain."

"You made the right decision, Hannah."

"It's not really a decision, in my case."

"Poor single shaped humans."

"—I'm not single shaped, sometimes I'm a girl."

"Dual shaped then."

"There is an excess of y chromosomes on Boyuan."

"On what now? And where's that whale?"

"Our island, and I think I can see it coming up."

It is a blue whale. They are eight.

It's a big whale. He swims after it.

The others manage to cling to its tail.