Tch! Yeah, right. [It doesn't seem possible for Kyouko's scowl to deepen, but it does.]

And duh. I know that. [Idly, she draws patterns in the sand with her fingertip.] It's not like we've gotta go in the water for this dumb mission anyway. What's the big deal if I don't want to go in?

[How could anyone stand it, she wondered. The ocean was too vast, too dark and formless. And this Earth had none of the familiarity of the one they'd left.

She wasn't afraid of it. She just didn't want to be near it.]