"Could you turn around?" Xenon asked Regina as he got closer to the shore and the water level was getting lower than his waist.
Regina retreated a few steps for the shore and did turn around. Xenon immediately ran out of the water and put on a trouser – from his inventory – when he saw that Regina did turn around.
"Uh, I was trying to swim by the way." Xenon said after putting on his trouser. "But the tide came in and I slipped, and almost drowned."
"Slipped?" Regina turned back to him and asked.
"Yeah, my feet were on the sea bed. I was trying to teach myself how to... swim." Xenon was washing the blood off his face in the water.
"Oh. Why go into the sea when you can't swim?"
"Are you deaf or something. Didn't you hear me say I was learning how to swim!" Xenon's temper rose abruptly.
Xenon pulled a scarf from his inventory, dipped it in water and dabbed it at the cut on his head, above his left eyebrow. He turned around and walked away from the sea shore.
