Just because she'd been asking about it for the last half hour didn't mean Elphie was exactly excited about sticking a fish in her ear. Fish lived in water... the very same water that was fickle about whether it wanted to kill her or not. But she snapped her mouth shut and took the fish from him, slipping it into her ear and pursing her lips at the sensation of the thing finding the right spot.

And then all the sounds made sense. Elphie clapped her hands to her ears as she looked around her in wonder.