[Tim tried to just ignore the people who were staring at them-- probably it was because Tim was a big beefman, and minotaur were kind of rare on the peninsula, or because he was walking hand-in-hand with someone who looked completely human. That kind of thing wasn't likely very common outside of Bavan.]

He mentioned something about you giving him some pointers.

[And insisted that he totally knew how to swim all along, really, which Tim was about 99% sure was absolute bullshit. But that was fine, whatever spared Juno's poor, raccoon-man ego.]

[Tim left his things with Majima's and followed him down towards the water.]

Yeah, definitely. I've got, like, a general idea of how it works?

[Well, he'd seen it done in movies, anyway. That was close enough, right?]