"You should have said so earlier! Second Elder, if you wanted to come down earlier, you should have spoken up. How was I supposed to know you really wanted to come down if you didn't say so? Even though you looked at me with sincerity, you still needed to tell me you wanted to come down..."
"Oh, the agony! Stop the incantation! Stop the incantation! Great Sage, have mercy on my head!"
"Why didn't you... say it... earlier..."
"Blub blub."
Bubbles rose up as the Second Elder Che almost ran out of air. The White Ape shifted its bottom, moving away from the Second Elder. Without the weight on him, the giant shell opened abruptly, spurting out a stream of water with faint traces of blood.
"Cough cough..."
Silence.
The young giant clam shivered, not out of boredom, but out of deep-seated fear!
What did the White Ape do?
A bear hug!
It wasn't smashing, prying, drilling.
It was hugging!
