A land-boy who was always wet? Now Setsuko was interested. "Do you have to stay that way?" she asked. "All the-" she stopped, about to say land-humans. "All the people I know like to be dry if they can help it."

"My name is Setsuko," she said. "Do you know where I am? I suddenly swam here from the ocean and found myself here." He said he wasn't a sorcerer, but if he knew someone who was, perhaps she could go back home...eventually.