[Geir glances after the strange, unrecognizable movement for a moment, but he's distracted by Dirk's conversation. swimming side by side seems easy like this, and it is fun to share it with someone.]

I still don't really know what Norse and Greek are, but even Dad never got up to anything as weird as I've heard here! Your friend Jake told me he was his own grandfather.

[the city below is interesting, closer to Aimintas than any city he's ever seen at home. his eye refuses to parse skyscrapers as buildings at first, seeing them as strangely uniform rocky crags pushing into the sky, but he eventually gets close enough to swim closer to the clouded mirror-glass windows and stare into his reflection. he's never seen it on a surface this big before.]

How did the water even rise this high? Nobody built these underwater on purpose, right...?