Carefully positioning yourself up at the side of the riverbed, you hold yourself steady on the riverbank with your left hand. You can hear the others talking in the distance. You knew you had only one shot at this. Steadying yourself up again, you reach up with your right hand in an attempt to pull the woman in. The hot humid air gets to your eyes and your vision seems slightly blurry which in turn affected your judgement of distance. Your hand slowly edges closer towards your prize, inch by inch. You wonder what on earth you'd even say to her once she was in your clutches. You can't help but think that she's going to scream blue murder when she lays eyes upon your monstrous face. Suddenly you hear someone calling out her name "Kay!, Kay!".
Within inches of your grasp, she walks away from you. You quickly withdraw your hand and hastily submerge yourself back underwater. You feel somewhat relieved to feel the water against your eyes again. Frustrated and humiliated, you swim away in a huff. This was going to be a lot harder than you thought. As you swim away, a sense of déjà vu comes over you and you wonder if you had seen this somewhere before... just from a drastically different perspective. The thought was fleeting, there and gone. Still, on the bright side, you know her name now. You move yourself to a safer distance and conceal yourself under some surface plant life of some kind.
The humans appeared to be looking for something. They were digging through dirt in numerous places and examining rocks they had found with great scrutiny. They even had a specialised device to separate dirt from larger rocks with ease. With such equipment like that, you come to the conclusion that they must be archaeologists of some kind.
You retreat to a small distance from the boat, catching another fish on the way and rest on the river bed nibbling away at your new catch. You think about your first attempt at interacting with humans in your form and feel somewhat depressed over just how typical this failure of yours was. More so considering the cause was so simple. If this failure of yours was any indication as to how future attempts would be, you fear you may be stuck like this permanently. Sometime later, you hear the boats engine spring back into life and the boat is on the move again. Dropping the remains of your fish, you swim amongst the plant life keeping yourself well hidden.