I threw it down, unwilling to disturb the beauty around me, and Sawtooth abruptly dropped me to float freely as he darted down to catch the implement before it sunk into some crevice in the reef. He looked up at me with a mixture of concern and questioning, as if I were some kind of puzzle that he had yet to figure out.

I looked away, choosing instead to stare at some nearby coral.

My head was full of complicated feelings…
I felt understandably disgusted...