“W… What do we do? This has to be a dream!” Ruby said in a panic.
“Calm down, now. Panicking won’t get us anywhere.” Samantha said, placing a hand on Ruby’s shoulder. “We got to figure this out calmly.”
Somehow, Samantha’s touch was quite soothing to Ruby, and Samantha herself felt calmed by her own contact with her friend. “You’re right Samantha, let’s think about this rationally.”
The two friends thought for a moment before Ruby offered a suggestion. “What about H2O?”
“It’s all around us and we can breathe it; that’s kind of the situation we’re in.” Samantha growled.
“No, the TV show; their tails became legs when they dried off, let’s try that.”
”Worth a shot.” Samantha agreed.
The two girls climbed out of the pool, grabbed the towels from their bags and began drying off. As their tails dried, they suddenly felt them start to shrink away and their pelvic fins lengthen. Scales slowly vanished and bare skin showed itself as their tails turned into their inert tailbones and the lengthening pelvic fins took their shape as their legs.
“It worked!” Ruby shouted.
“Good call Ruby!” Samantha said.
“So, what now?” Ruby asked.