Luca experimented with the coin he'd been giving, keeping some and spending a bit on any odd little trinket that caught his attention. Quite pleased, he spent the night in a little cavern on the beach, the sounds of the ocean lulling him to sleep.
When he woke the next morning, the call of the sea was too difficult to resist. Placing his gathered treasures from this short trip in a threadbare sack her recovered long ago from a sucker wreck, he shucked his "borrowed" pants and made his way into the water, barely casting a glance around to make sure he wasn't watched.
Once submerged to the waist, he felt the familiar tingle start in his toes and already rapidly up his legs. Used to the change by now, he simply gave his tail a flick when he exchanged legs for fins and dove into the water.
He meant to just swim out to sea, but noises from the port caught his attention. Curious, he decided to take a look, watching from just under the surface as one of the ships was prepared to sail.