"Oh, I'm Ewelani," Ewe returned the mermaid's grin, amused by this excitable creature. "You can call me Ewe though, everyone does." She swam over to the edge of the cove, holding on to a rock as she spoke.
"Okay, I'm not gonna be able to talk underwater like you can, so you'll just have to follow me," she explained. "I'm going to find a particular type of shell and bring them up, so if you want to do the same we have more chance of being lucky! Then we can go back to the beach and look at them. Okay?"
She shot a bright grin at Glimmer, took a deep breath, and pushed herself underwater. As her outstretched arms touched the bottom of the cove she opened her eyes, scanning around the seabed. Working quickly, she spotted a cluster of oyster shells and pointed them out to Glimmer, before gathering as many as she could hold. Rapidly running out of breath, she just had to assume that the mermaid would have followed her lead, and kicked her way back up to the surface, oysters held tightly to her chest.
She broke above the waves, gasping for air, and looked around for her companion.